Dawson City

Dawson City grew from a First Nations trading site to an improvised city of 40,000 during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898 and retains a significant collection of unreconstructed Gold Rush-era buildings. The town sits at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers below a broad, wooded bench called the Dome, which provides an elevated viewpoint over the river junction and floodplain. The Parks Canada Klondike National Historic Sites interpret the mass migration that transformed the Yukon and shaped Canadian northern identity.