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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Chapters: Steamboats of the Yukon River. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 126. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Steamboats played a huge role on the development of Alaska and the Yukon. Access to the interior of Alaska and Yukon was hindered by large mountains and distance, the wide Yukon River provided a solution. The first steamers on the lower Yukon River were work boats for the Collins Overland Telegraph in 1868 with small steamer called the Wilder. The mouth of the Yukon River was far to the west at St. Michael and a journey from Seattle or San Francisco covered some 4000 miles. There were a series of steamers owned by the Alaska Commercial Company--the Youkon of 1869, and the St. Michael of 1879. Slowly the north was being opened up with the help of river steamers. The Portus B. Weare worked the river after 1892. The discovery of gold on Rabbit Creek at Dawson City changed everything. Thousands of gold seekers headed north. Riverboats from the Pacific Northwest headed north to ply the trade. Hundreds of boats were co-opted and others were built. One dozen identical steamboats were built by Moran Bros. (hull Nos. 9-20). Yards in Seattle, Victoria, Portland, and Vancouver all built boats. The CPR Steamer service ordered more vesselsthe Moyie and the Minto, for instance, but they arrived too late for service on the Yukon. Boats were either steamed across the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea to enter the river mouth, or they were transported in pieces over the White Pass and assembled in Whitehorse. The big revenue route was from Whitehorse several hundred miles north to Dawson. Almost 300 commercial steamboats worked the Yukon River over the years. In 1900, the White Pass ... Read more

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Subtitle: A Complete Account to Date of the Yukon Valley; Its History, Geography, Mineral and Other Resources, Opportunities and Means of AccessGeneral Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1897Original Publisher: Rand, McNally ... Read more

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Kapitel: Macbride Museum of Yukon History, Montague Roadhouse, Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre, Kluane Museum of Natural History, George Johnston Museum, Tagé Cho Hudän Interpretive Centre. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Other reasons this message may be displayed: ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Issued by direction of the Hon. Frank Oliver, Minister of the Interior. First year of issue. Large folding map, photographs. Yukon mining information, statistics, other info on the Yukon Territory in 1907. ... Read more

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Chapters: Volcanic History of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, Volcanism of Northern Canada, Coast Range Arc, 773 Irmintraud, Tagish Lake, 1985 Nahanni Earthquakes, Omineca Arc. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The volcanic history of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province presents a record of volcanic activity in northwestern British Columbia, central Yukon and the U.S. state of easternmost Alaska. The volcanic activity lies in the northern part of the Western Cordillera of the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Extensional cracking of the North American Plate in this part of North America has existed for millions of years. Continuation of this continental rifting has fed scores of volcanoes throughout the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province over at least the past 20 million years (see Geology of the Pacific Northwest) and occasionally continued into geologically recent times. Eruptive activity in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province throughout its 20 million year history has been mainly the production of alkaline lavas, including alkaline basalts. A range of alkaline rock types not commonly found in the Western Cordillera are regionally widespread in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province. These include nephelinite, basanite and peralkaline phonolite, trachyte and comendite lavas. The trachyte and comendite lavas are understood to have been created by fractionation of mainly alkali basalt magma in crustal reservoirs. An area of continental rifting, such as the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, would aid the formation of high-level reservoirs of capable size and thermal activity to maintain long-lived fractionation. In the past 15 million years, at least four large volcanoes have formed their way thro...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25498415 ... Read more

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A northern author looks at the challenges faced by the Mounties in Canada's Yukon Territory over the last 100 years, from their arrival on the eve of the world-famous Klondike gold rush, to the present. Through vivid photos, careful research, and use of personal diaries and correspondence, Helene Dobrowolsky illustrates the reality of Royal Canadian Mounted Police history to be even more intriguing than the fiction of Hollywood's Sergeant Preston. ... Read more

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For anyone interested in the history of the RCMP, this book is fantastic.The RCMP made a name for itself in the Yukon during the gold rush, and has grown to become part of Yukon society.All aspects of the force areexamined in this book, and the pictures are great. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Geoscience Canada, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 29541 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Great mining camps of Canada 1. The history and geology of the Keno Hill Silver Camp, Yukon Territory.
Author: R.J. Cathro
Publication: Geoscience Canada (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 33Issue: 3Page: 103(32)

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Furs, gold, whales, oil--the reason for going north has always been to empty the treasure house. The northern territories are vast and sparsely populated, so southern Canadians have been content to consider the North a colony, not a true part of Canada.

Since the first British naval expeditions to the "Frozen North," the history of the region has been romanticised. This book presents that history as seen from the North itself. Ken Coates begins by describing the resilient pre-European cultures of the Dene and Inuit peoples. Chapters are devoted to each period of development--the fur trade, Arctic whaling, the Klondike Gold Rush, military projects like the Alaska Highway, Ottawa's "bureaucratisation" of the North, and the resource projects of recent years.

First published in 1985, this book shows that modern northern politics have deep roots in the true history of "Canada's colonies." ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Northern Review, published by Northern Review on September 22, 2008. The length of the article is 924 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Heart of the Yukon: A Natural and Cultural History of the Mayo Area.(Book review)
Author: Dave Mossop
Publication: Northern Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2008
Publisher: Northern Review
Issue: 29Page: 187(2)

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This digital document is an article from Revue parlementaire canadienne, published by Canadian Parliamentary Association on December 22, 2009. The length of the article is 764 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: With the People Who Live there: The History of the Yukon Legislature 1909-1961.(Sur les rayons)(Book review)
Author: Gary Levy
Publication: Revue parlementaire canadienne (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2009
Publisher: Canadian Parliamentary Association
Volume: 32Issue: 4Page: 37(1)

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Barely a 150 years have passed since the first white people arrived at the upper Yukon River basin. During this time many non-natives have come and gone and some have stayed. This work examines the interaction between native people and whites, from the arrival of the fur traders through the fundamental changes following the Second World War, in terms of social contact, economic relations, and church and government policies. The indigenous population, Coates stresses, has not been passive in the face of expansion by whites. He argues that native people have played a major role in shaping the history of the region and determining the relationship with the immigrant population. They recognized the conflict between the material and technological advantages of an imposed economic order and the desire to maintain a harvesting existence. While they readily accepted technological innovations, they resisted the imposition of an industrial, urban environment. Contemporary land claims show their long-standing attachment to the land and demonstrate a continued, assertive response to non-Native intervention. ... Read more