DAWSON CITY

Dawson City - Klondike Visitors Association -

Year 2001 - One hundred and three years ago Dawson City was the heart of the great Klondike Gold Rush. More than 30,000 people transformed an Indian fish camp and moose pasture at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers into the largest city in Canada west of Winnipeg and north of Seattle. Just over a century later Dawson still celebrates its colourful past, yet in many respects nothing has changed. The gold mining industry still flourishes here, and people still flock here from all over the world - drawn less by the gold than the adventure of getting here, and the excitement of seeing where it all happened.