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16/08/1896 Setting off the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada
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Retracing the Klondike Gold Rush - The Yukon, Canada
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Yukon - Dawson City Klondike Gold Rush
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Klondike Gold Rush - Uniquely Yukon
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors.
Essentials
Background
Discovery (1896)
Beginning of the stampede (July 1897)
Routes to the Klondike
Mining
Life in the Klondike
End of the gold rush
Legacy