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Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...

Municipalities

Unincorporated communities

These areas lie within the

Unorganized Yukon Unorganized Yukon, or Yukon, Unorganized, is the unorganized area covering the majority of Yukon, Canada. It represents 98% of Yukon's land mass, and is recognized as a census subdivision by Statistics Canada. Demographics In the 2021 Canadian ...

, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass.

Hamlets

Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisions in Yukon that are classified as

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...

. * Ibex Valley * Mount Lorne

Localities

The ''Gazetteer of Yukon'' recognized 96 localities as of February 2012. Two of these localities,

Tagish The Tagish or Tagish Khwáan ( Tagish: ; tli, Taagish ḵwáan) are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that lived around Tagish Lake and Marsh Lake, in Yukon of Canada. The Tagish intermarried heavily with ...

and Upper Liard, are designated as census subdivisions by Statistics Canada, though are classified as settlements. *

Aishihik Aishihik (Also known as Äshèyi) is a village of the Southern Tutchone people at the north end of Äshèyi Män ( Aishihik Lake) in Yukon. It continues to be the home of the Äshèyi people. Champagne and Aishihik First Nations continue to us ...

*Ballarat Creek *Barlow *Bear Creek *Black Hills *Boundary *Braeburn *Brewer Creek *Britannia Creek *Brooks Brook *Calumet *Canyon * Canyon City *Carcross Cutoff *Caribou *

Champagne Champagne (, ) is a sparkling wine originated and produced in the Champagne wine region of France under the rules of the appellation, that demand specific vineyard practices, sourcing of grapes exclusively from designated places within it, ...

*Clear Creek * Clinton Creek *Coffee Creek * Conrad *

Dalton Post This is a list of communities in Yukon. Municipalities Unincorporated communities These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass. Hamlets Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisi ...

* De Wette * Dezadeash *Donjek *Dominion *Dry Creek *Dundalk *Eagle Plains *Flat Creek *

Fort Reliance Fort Reliance is an abandoned trading post in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It stands on the east bank of the Yukon River, downstream of the town of Dawson City. The fort was established in 1874 by François Mercier, Jack McQuesten, and Fran ...

Fort Selkirk Fort Selkirk is a former trading post on the Yukon River at the confluence of the Pelly River in Canada's Yukon. For many years it was home to the Selkirk First Nation (Northern Tutchone). History Archaeological evidence shows that the site ...

* Forty Mile *Frances Lake *Glacier Creek *Glenboyle *Gold Bottom * Gold Run *Gordon Landing *

Grand Forks Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the state of North Dakota (after Fargo and Bismarck) and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2020 census, the city's population was 59,166. Grand Forks, along with its twin city o ...

Granville, Yukon This is a list of communities in Yukon. Municipalities Unincorporated communities These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass. Hamlets Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisi ...

*Gravel Lake *Herschel *Hootalinqua *Hundred Mile Landing *Hutshi *Isaac Creek *

Jakes Corner Jakes Corner or Jake's Corner may refer to: Places * Jakes Corner, Yukon, Canada * Jakes Corner, Arizona, United States Other uses * ''Jake's Corner'' (film) {{disambiguation, geo ...

*Jensen Creek *Kirkman Creek *Kloo Lake * Klondike *

Klukshu This is a list of communities in Yukon. Municipalities Unincorporated communities These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass. Hamlets Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisi ...

*Koidern *Kynocks *

Lansdowne Lansdowne or Lansdown may refer to: People * Lansdown Guilding (1797–1831), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines naturalist and engraver *Fenwick Lansdowne (1937–2008), Canadian wildlife artist * George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) ...

Lansing Lansing () is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644, makin ...

Lapierre House Lapierre or LaPierre is a surname, and may refer to: People * Dominique Lapierre, French author * Edmond Lapierre (1866–1960), Canadian politician * Fabrice Lapierre, Australian athlete * Gary LaPierre, American radio broadcaster * Jean Lapierre ...

* Little Gold *

Little River Little River may refer to several places: Australia Streams New South Wales *Little River (Dubbo), source in the Dubbo region, a tributary of the Macquarie River * Little River (Oberon), source in the Oberon Shire, a tributary of Coxs River (Haw ...

* Little Salmon *

Little Teslin Lake Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt * ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film *The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...

* Livingstone, Yukon * Livingstone Creek * Lorne, Yukon * Mason Landing *McCabe Creek * McClintok * McQuesten * Mendenhall Landing * Minto, Yukon * Minto Bridge * Montague, Yukon * Moosehide * Morley River * Nesketahin *

Ogilvie Ogilvie is a surname of Scottish origin. It may also refer to: People *Ogilvie (name) Places Australia * Ogilvie, Western Australia Canada * Ogilvie, Nova Scotia * Ogilvie Aerodrome, Yukon * Ogilvie Mountains, a mountain range in Yukon Scotlan ...

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

*Pelly Lakes *Quill Creek *Rampart House *Rancheria *Readford *Robinson *Rock Creek *Scroggie Creek *Selwyn * Silver City *Sixtymile *Snag *Snag Junction *Stevens Roadhouse *Stewart River *Stony Creek Camp * Sulphur *Summit Roadhouse *

(also designated a census subdivision) *Takhini *

Takhini Hot Springs Takhini Hot Springs (Takhini Hotspring) (tɑːkiːniː) is a natural hot springs located just outside the border of Whitehorse, Yukon ( from the city centre). It is a locally run business which incorporates two pools at different temperatures and ...

*Ten Mile *

Teslin Crossing Teslin Crossing is an unincorporated area in Yukon, Canada, located on the Teslin River about north-northeast of Whitehorse. See also *Teslin (disambiguation) Teslin is the anglicized form of the name of the ''Deisleen Ḵwáan'' ("Big Sinew Tri ...

*Teslin Lake *

Teslin River The Teslin River is a river in southern Yukon Territory and northwestern British Columbia, Canada, that flows from its source south of Teslin Lake to its confluence with the Yukon River. During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896–99, the river beca ...

*Thistle Creek *Tuchitua *Upper Laberge * Upper Liard (also designated a census subdivision) *Watson *Wernecke *West Dawson *Whitefish Station *Whitestone Village *Yukon Crossing

Dalton Post

Dalton Post or Shäwshe is a former

trading post A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded. Typically the location of the trading post would allow people from one geographic area to tr ...

and

First Nations First Nations or first peoples may refer to: * Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area. Indigenous groups *First Nations is commonly used to describe some Indigenous groups including: **First Natio ...

community on the

Tatshenshini River The Tatshenshini River (; Tlingit ''Tʼachanshahéeni'', Southern Tutchone ''Shäwshe Chù'') is a river in the Canadian boreal forest, in the southwestern Yukon and the northwestern corner of British Columbia. It originates in British Columbia, ...

. It was on the

Dalton Trail The Dalton Trail is a trail that runs between Pyramid Harbor, west of Haines, Alaska in the United States, and Fort Selkirk, in the Yukon Territory of Canada, using the Chilkat Pass. It is 396 km (246 mi) long. Originally, the Ch ...

near the

Haines Highway The Haines Highway or Haines Cut-Off (and still often called the Haines Road) is a highway that connects Haines, Alaska, in the United States, with Haines Junction, Yukon, Canada, passing through the province of British Columbia. It follows ...

. Today, it is a prime

Pacific salmon ''Oncorhynchus'' is a genus of fish in the family Salmonidae; it contains the Pacific salmon and Pacific trout. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek ὄγκος (ónkos, “lump, bend”) + ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos, “snout”), i ...

fishing spot and serves as a base for

whitewater rafting Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water. This is often done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water. Dealing with risk is often a ...

expeditions on the Tatshenshini and Alsek Rivers in the

Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park Tatshenshini-Alsek Park or Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Wilderness Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada . It was established in 1993 after an intensive campaign by Canadian and American conservation organizations to halt mining e ...

Jakes Corner

Jakes Corner is a spot on the road, at historical mile 866 of the Alaska Highway, at the junction with connections to the

Tagish Road The Tagish Road (also known as Yukon Highway 8) is a road, now hard surfaced, that links Jakes Corner on the Alaska Highway with Carcross, Yukon on the Klondike Highway. from Jakes Corner is the terminus of the Atlin Road. The small community ...

and the

Atlin Road The Atlin Road is a road in British Columbia and Yukon, Canada. It is designated as Highway 7 in Yukon, and has no official highway number in British Columbia. It was built by the Canadian Army from 1950 to 1951, connecting the village of Atlin ...

. There are a small number of area residents, the junction being best known for a gas station and café. The gas station has numerous examples of old machinery.

Klukshu

Klukshu's more recent history is as a seasonal aboriginal fishing community, benefitting from a large

Chinook salmon The Chinook salmon (''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'') is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon in North America, as well as the largest in the genus '' Oncorhynchus''. Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other ...

run. Located near the Haines Highway, it has no permanent population. Interpretive information is provided by the

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (CAFN) is a First Nation band government in Yukon, Canada. Historically its original population centres were Champagne (home of the ''Kwächä̀l kwächʼǟn'' - "Champagne people/band") and Aishihik (home ...

Little Salmon

Little Salmon is located on the

Robert Campbell Highway Yukon Highway 4, also known as the Robert Campbell Highway or Campbell Highway, is a road between Watson Lake, Yukon on the Alaska Highway to Carmacks, Yukon on the Klondike Highway. It is long and mostly gravel-surfaced. It serves the communi ...

between Faro and Carmacks, and stretches along the lake of the same name and the

Yukon River The Yukon River ( Gwich'in: ''Ųųg Han'' or ''Yuk Han'', Yup'ik: ''Kuigpak'', Inupiaq: ''Kuukpak'', Deg Xinag: ''Yeqin'', Hän: ''Tth'echù'' or ''Chuu k'onn'', Southern Tutchone: Chu Nìikwän, russian: Юкон, Yukon) is a major watercourse ...

. The only non-residential establishment is the Yukon government highway maintenance camp at Drury Creek. It was formerly an important settlement of the

Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation The Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation is a First Nation in the central Yukon Territory in Canada. Its original population centre was Little Salmon, Yukon, but most of its citizens live in Carmacks, Yukon. The language originally spoken by the Lit ...

Silver City

Silver City, a historic mining town, is today only the residence of a small number of people, one household being a

bed and breakfast Bed and breakfast (typically shortened to B&B or BnB) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast. Bed and breakfasts are often private family homes and typically have between four and eleven rooms, wit ...

establishment. It is located at historical mile 1053 of the Alaska Highway. It contains an airport, Silver City Airport.

Sulphur

Sulphur or Sulphur Creek was a mining camp south-east of Dawson on a creek of the same name that flows into the Indian River. A post office was opened there on 28 October 1903 by G. W. Coffin. It was closed in July 1922. The place is mentioned in

Jack London John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...

's story,

To Build a Fire "To Build a Fire" is a short story by American author Jack London. There are two versions of this story. The first one was published in 1902, and the other was published in 1908. The story written in 1908 has become an often anthologized classic, ...

Settlements

The ''Gazetteer of Yukon'' recognized 29 settlements as of February 2012. Eleven of these settlements are designated as census subdivisions by Statistics Canada. *Arlington *Armstrong *Bear Creek * Beaver Creek – also designated a census subdivision *Big Salmon *

Burwash Landing Burwash Landing is a small community, at historical mile 1093 on the Alaska Highway, in Yukon, Canada along the southern shore of Kluane Lake. The present location of Burwash Landing was first used as a summer camp by the Southern Tutchone Athab ...

– also designated a census subdivision *

Carcross Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, ( tli, Nadashaa Héeni) is an unincorporated community in Yukon, Canada, on Bennett Lake and Nares Lake. It is home to the Carcross/Tagish First Nation. It is south-southeast by the Alaska Highway ...

– also designated a census subdivision *

Destruction Bay Destruction Bay is a small community on the Alaska Highway (historical mile 1083) in Canada's Yukon on Kluane Lake. Populated mostly by non-aboriginal residents, community residents provide Yukon government services to residents in the area (scho ...

– also designated a census subdivision *Dry Creek *Dundalk * Herschel *Hundred Mile Landing * Johnsons Crossing – also designated a census subdivision * Keno Hill – also designated a census subdivision *Lewis *Livingstone *Lower Laberge *

Marsh Lake Marsh Lake (Mud Lake) is a widening of the Yukon River southeast of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. It is over 30 kilometres long and ranges from three to four kilometres wide. The co-ordinates of the lake are , and is 2,147 feet above sea level. The ...

*Mendenhall Landing *

Old Crow Old Crow is a low-priced brand of Kentucky-made straight bourbon whiskey distilled by Beam Suntory, which also produces Jim Beam and several other brands of whiskey. The current Old Crow product uses the same mash bill and yeast as Jim Beam, but ...

– also designated a census subdivision *

Pelly Crossing Pelly Crossing is a community in Yukon, Canada. It lies where the Klondike Highway crosses the Pelly River. It is the home of the Selkirk First Nation, and home to the Northern Tutchone culture. Cultural displays and artifacts are housed in a ...

– also designated a census subdivision *Rampart House * Ross River – also designated a census subdivision *Selwyn * Snag * Stewart Crossing – also designated a census subdivision * Stewart River * Swift River – also designated a census subdivision *

Teslin Lake Teslin Lake is a large lake spanning the border between British Columbia and Yukon, Canada. It is one of a group of large lakes in the region of far northwestern BC, east of the upper Alaska Panhandle, which are the southern extremity of the bas ...

Herschel

Herschel was a settlement on

Herschel Island Herschel Island (french: Île d'Herschel; Inuit languages: ''Qikiqtaruk'') is an island in the Beaufort Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean), which lies off the coast of Yukon in Canada, of which it is administratively a part. It is Yukon's only ...

, serving as a whaling station, North-West Mounted Police post and

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business di ...

store. It has been long abandoned, and shoreline erosion is threatening to wipe out the remaining buildings.

Stewart River

Stewart River is a former settlement at the juncture of the

and Stewart rivers. A few buildings and cabins remain, as well as private museum, which are threatened by

erosion Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location where it is deposited. Erosion is dis ...

. It was founded as a trading post in the 1880s before the Klondike Gold Rush to serve placer miners working along the Stewart River. The Burian family was still living there in the late 1980s.

First Nations communities

Statistics Canada recognizes five census subdivisions in Yukon that are classified as Indian settlements, and four census subdivisions as self-governments.

Indian settlements

– also recognized as a locality *Kloo Lake *

– also recognized as a locality * Two Mile Village * Two and One-Half Mile Village

Self-governments

* Carcross 4 * Lake Laberge 1 * Moosehide Creek 2 *

Teslin Post 13 The community of Teslin (Tlingit: ''Desleen'') includes the Village of Teslin in Yukon, Canada. Teslin is situated at historical Mile 804 on the Alaska Highway along Teslin Lake. The Hudson's Bay Company established a small trading post at Tesli ...

Ghost towns

* Elsa * Clinton Creek * Fort Frances * Forty Mile * Miner's Prayer

Miner's Prayer

Miner's Prayer was settled near the

Blackstone River The Blackstone River is a river in the U.S. states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It flows approximately 48 mi (80 km) and drains a watershed of approximately 540 sq. mi (1,400 km2). Its long history of industrial use has left ...

Mining Concern, providing a retreat where the miners could indulge in billiards, alcohol and other entertainment otherwise forbidden on the mining settlement. Today it is home to fewer than thirty permanent residents. It can be accessed by gravel road veering west from mile 57 on the

Dempster Highway The Dempster Highway, also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway in Canada that connects the Klondike Highway in Yukon to Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the Mackenzie River delta. The highway crosses ...

Notes

References

*Robert G. Woodall, The Postal History of Yukon Territory Canada, Lawrence, MA, Quarterman, Revised edition, 1976,

External links

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