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'You can't miss it': Elder's glowing house helps brighten the holidays in Dawson City, Yukon • Dec. 24, 2024, 9:36 PM ET (CBC)
Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation gets nearly $25M in federal funding for heritage complex • Dec. 24, 2024, 12:36 AM ET (CBC)
Dawson City, Yukon, honours beloved postal worker on her retirement with 'Elaine Grandy Day' • Dec. 22, 2024, 1:23 AM ET (CBC)
Dawson City's annual ice bridge is open to traffic once again • Dec. 18, 2024, 3:27 AM ET (CBC)
Family, friend of woman killed in car accident in Dawson City last year say they want answers • Dec. 16, 2024, 1:08 PM ET (CBC)

Dawson, city, western Yukon, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, near the boundary with the U.S. state of Alaska, 165 miles (265 km) south of the Arctic Circle. The community, named for George M. Dawson, the geologist-explorer, developed after the gold strike at nearby Bonanza Creek in 1896. During the height of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, Dawson’s population exceeded 30,000, only to be followed by a spectacular decline resulting from the exhaustion of the most readily accessible mines. The city’s position as the capital of Yukon, gained in 1898, was lost in ...(100 of 204 words)

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