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1. Yukon

Yukon, most robust, sparsely populated stretch of land located above the 60th parallel north-western Canada, which shares its border with Alaska and win its slogan accurately self-proclaimed "larger than life , is a diversified topography, serene beauty, attractive and exhilarating territory of sterile, treeless plains, boreal forests, rugged mountains, glaciers, lakes and mirror-reflection and rivers inhabited by First Nations people of Canada and fauna abundant. Because of its high latitude, it experiences more than 20 hours of daylight in the summer, but less than five in winter, replaced instead, by the northern lights known as auroras. "Mis apart from the large "cities", most communities are accessible only by plane or dogsled.

The Yukon's history is, in essence, that the gold rush. Powered by August 16, 1896 discovery of a nugget of gold in north-western Canada at the confluence of the Yukon River and Klondike Rivers, began when some 100,000 seeking wealth and adventure, Go to which was designated later, the Klondike Gold Rush Trail between 1897 and 1898. The event, which has a population explosion and instant ultimately shaped the country, traces his path to five major locations, both the U.S. and Canada.

The first of them, Seattle, Washington, served as the gateway to the Yukon. Presented as the provider "fields of gold", it has sold equipment and supplies stored ten feet deep on the sidewalks showcase, grossing 25 million dollars in sales by early-1898, and was the starting point for all-water route across the Gulf of Alaska to St. Michael and the Yukon River to Dawson City. Despite high tariffs, which could afford a few, all the passes had been sold.

Dyea and the Chilkoot Trail, the second site had provided slower, more treacherous, alternate route, via the 33-mile Chilkoot trail connecting Alaska with the tidal headwaters of the Canadian Yukon River.

Skagway, Alaska, the third location, quickly replaced Dyea the "Gateway to the Klondike" because of its route over White Pass waterway which, although ten miles longer than the Chilkoot Trail, had resulted in a rise of 600 feet lower. The trail quickly destroyed due to overexploitation, which was finally replaced by the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, whose construction is financed by British investors, began in May 1898 and extended by the White Pass Summit in February 1899 , Lake Bennett in July of 1899, and Whitehorse in July of next year. Skagway itself was transformed from a cleared, fenced tent dashed to walk the streets lined with wooden buildings with 80 rooms sport within four months between August and December 1897.

At Lake Bennett, the fourth location, 30,000 gold seekers awaiting the spring thaw, the 7124 building wooden boats and green whipsawn the launch of their fleet, 29 May 1898, the fight against the Whitehorse Rapids before pursuing Yukon River at Dawson City.

Dawson himself, the location of the fifth, was the site of the discovery of gold nugget and had initially started as a small island between the Yukon and Klondike rivers previously occupied by the Han people of First Nations but has exploded in western Canada's largest city of Winnipeg and north of Vancouver with up to 40,000 gold seekers who cover an area of ten miles along the shore. thirty cords of firewood were used to burn the trees in the permafrost in the mines themselves. Among the 4,000 who actually discovered gold, only a few hundred finally led to "rich". <.