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Gold Diggers of the Klondike explores beyond the myths of the dance–hall girls and prostitutes of the Klondike gold rush, and uncovers the stories of the women who "mined the miners." In chronicling prostitution in Dawson city during the height and the decline of the rush, Ryley reveals that sexuality is an important aspect of the history of the Canadian frontier.

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Gold Diggers of the Klondike
I liked this book.It gives a good overview of the the bawdy side of the gold rush in Dawson City during the gold rush days.But Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush is a much better book.It covers the stories of many more women and many more mining towns, over a much longer period of time, than Gold Diggers. ... Read more

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For decades the Whitehorse waterfront teemed with life as trains from the coast met boats bound for the Klondike goldfields. Edge of the River, Heart of the City captures those glory--days and takes the reader through the booms and busts of Whitehorse's past. This important new addition to Yukon history also provides readers with a historical walking tour of the Whitehorse waterfront. ... Read more

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urban waterfront development
waterfront development - riverfront - the effect of waterfront rules , land uses ,human activities and economics on urban design of waterfront ... Read more

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wonderful book about pioneer Alaska
The historic town of Eagle, Alaska, is literally at the end of the road, over a hundred miles of rugged gravel Taylor Highway from the Alaska Highway.Nonetheless, it is a major destination for tourists who brave the road, or who come down the Yukon River from Dawson City, due to its wonderful museum, historic buildings and artifacts, and outstanding guided tours.

Elva Scott of the Eagle Historic Society & Museum has presented a collection of essays about the history of Eagle and the pioneers who built it.Here you can read about Erwin (Nimrod) Robertson, the only man who ever ate a grizzly bear with its own teeth, and Judge James Wickersham who brought law and order to the lawless frontier.

A must-read for anyone interested in history. ... Read more

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Chapters: Dawson City Nuggets, St. Paul's Anglican Church (Dawson City, Yukon), Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation, Bonanza Creek, Dawson City Airport, Dawson City Water Aerodrome,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Town of the City of Dawson or Dawson City is a town in the Yukon, Canada. The population was 1,327 at the 2006 census. The area draws some 60,000 visitors each year. The locals generally refer to it simply as 'Dawson', but the tourist industry generally refers to it as 'Dawson City' (partly to differentiate it from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, which is at Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway). Yukon HotelThe townsite was founded by Joseph Francis Ladue and named in January 1897 after noted Canadian geologist George M. Dawson, who had explored and mapped the region in 1887. It served as the Yukon's capital from the territory's founding in 1898 until 1952, when the seat was moved to Whitehorse. Dawson has a much longer history, however, as an important harvest area used for millennia by the Hän-speaking people of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in and their forebears. The heart of their homeland was Tr'ochëk, a fishing camp at the confluence of the Klondike River and Yukon River, now a National Historic Site of Canada. This site was also an important summer gathering spot and a base for moose-hunting on the Klondike Valley. The Klondike Gold Rush started in 1896 and changed the First Nations camp into a thriving city of 40,000 by 1898. By 1899, the gold rush had ended and the town's population plummeted as all but 8,000 people left. When Dawson was incorporated as a city in 1902, the population was under 5,000. St. Paul's Anglican Church built that same year is a National Historic Site. The population was fairly stable until the 1930s, dropped after Worl...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=634070 ... Read more

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Chapters: St. Paul's Anglican Church (Dawson City, Yukon), Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon, Prefecture Apostolic of Yukon, Roman Catholic Diocese of Whitehorse, Anglican Diocese of Yukon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: St. Paul's Anglican Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Anglican church building located on the corner of Front and Church streets in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Built of wood in 1902, it once served as the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Yukon until the diocesan see was moved to Whitehorse in 1953. Its steep pitched roof, its pointed arch entry through its belfry tower and its lancet windows are typical of Carpenter Gothic churches. St. Paul's is a National Historic Site of Canada as designated by the Government of Canada on June 1, 1989. St. Paul's is still an active parish in the Diocese of Yukon. The Rev. Dr. Lee Titterington is its incumbent priest, while the Rev. Percey Henry is its deacon. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25003450 ... Read more

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Chapters: St. Paul's Anglican Church (Dawson City, Yukon),. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 9. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: St. Paul's Anglican Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Anglican church building located on the corner of Front and Church streets in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Built of wood in 1902, it once served as the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Yukon until the diocesan see was moved to Whitehorse in 1953. Its steep pitched roof, its pointed arch entry through its belfry tower and its lancet windows are typical of Carpenter Gothic churches. St. Paul's is a National Historic Site of Canada as designated by the Government of Canada on June 1, 1989. St. Paul's is still an active parish in the Diocese of Yukon. The Rev. Dr. Lee Titterington is its incumbent priest, while the Rev. Percey Henry is its deacon. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25003450 ... Read more

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Chapters: Oklahoma City, Yukon, Oklahoma, El Reno, Oklahoma, Mustang, Oklahoma, Calumet, Oklahoma, Okarche, Oklahoma, Union City, Oklahoma, Geary, Oklahoma, Piedmont, Oklahoma, Neighborhoods of Oklahoma City, National Register of Historic Places Listings in Canadian County, Oklahoma, Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport, Concho, Oklahoma, Southwest Covenant School, Sundance Airpark, Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple, El Reno High School, Federal Correctional Institution, El Reno, Redlands Community College, Banner School District, Devil's Canyon (Canadian County, Oklahoma). Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 119. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Oklahoma City -Oklahoma City was settled on April 22, 1889, when the area known as the "unassigned lands" was opened for settlement in an event known as the "The Land Run". Some 10,000 homesteaders settled the area that would become the capital of Oklahoma. The town grew quickly; the population doubled between 1890 and 1900. Early leaders of the development of the city included Anton Classen, Henry Overholser and James W. Maney. By the time Oklahoma was admitted to the Union in 1907, Oklahoma City had surpassed Guthrie, the territorial capital, as the population center and commercial hub of the new state. Soon after, the capital was moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City was a major stop on Route 66 during the early part of the 20th century and was prominently mentioned in Bobby Troup's 1946 jazz classic, "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66," later made famous by Nat King Cole. Before World War II, Oklahoma City developed major stockyards and, with the 1928 discovery of oil within the city limits (including under the State Capitol), it became a center of oil production. Post-war growth accompanied Oklahoma City's location as a major intercha...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=57848 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Former Cathedrals in Canada, Cathedral of the Transfiguration, St. Paul's Anglican Church (Dawson City, Yukon), Central Pentecostal Tabernacle, Bathurst Street Theatre, St. Jude's Cathedral, Saint-Jacques Cathedral, St. Paul's-Avenue Road United Church. Excerpt:The Cathedral of the TransfigurationThe Cathedral of the Transfiguration is a Slovak Byzantine Rite Roman Catholic former cathedral located in the community of Victoria Square in Markham, Ontario, Canada. The cathedral was built in a rural area north of the city of Toronto and was built to serve Slovak Catholics throughout the Greater Toronto Area. The Cathedral was conceived and funded by Stephen B. Roman, a Slovak immigrant to Canada who had built up the Denison Mines corporation. Roman both funded and designed the building, modeling the structure on the church in Velky Ruskov, the Slovak village he was raised in. The cathedral was built on a donated portion of his Romandale estate. Among its features is the world's largest three bell carillon, with the French made bells weighing 32,000 pounds, and 300 cm diameter. The mosaics are reputed to contain about 5 million pieces. The cathedral was built to hold 1000 worshipers serving a community of about 5000 Byzantine Rite Catholics in the GTA and 35,000 across Canada. The central tower rises 63 metres (about 20 storeys) and is topped by a gold onion dome. The church was designed by Donald Buttress, a renowned architect whose claim to fame is overhauling Westminster Abbey. It is a significant landmark east of the 404 highway. Work began on the Cathedral in 1984. That year it became the first church in North America to be consecrated by a Pope, when John Paul II blessed the cornerstone during his trip to Canada. Construction took seve... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15671078 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dawson City, Dawson City Nuggets, Faro, Yukon, St. Paul's Anglican Church (Dawson City, Yukon), Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation, Bonanza Creek, Dawson City Airport, Dawson City Water Aerodrome. Excerpt: Dawson City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yukon HotelThe townsite was founded by Joseph Francis Ladue and named in January 1897 after noted Canadian geologist George M. Dawson, who had explored and mapped the region in 1887. It served as the Yukon's capital from the territory's founding in 1898 until 1952, when the seat was moved to Whitehorse. Dawson has a much longer history, however, as an important harvest area used for millennia by the Hän-speaking people of the Trondëk Hwëchin and their forebears. The heart of their homeland was Tr'ochëk, a fishing camp at the confluence of the Klondike River and Yukon River, now a National Historic Site. This site was also an important summer gathering spot and a base for moose-hunting on the Klondike Valley. The Klondike Gold Rush started in 1896 and changed the First Nations camp into a thriving city of 40,000 by 1898. By 1899, the gold rush had ended and the town's population plummeted as all but 8,000 people left. When Dawson was incorporated as a city in 1902, the population was under 5,000. St. Paul's Anglican Church built that same year is a National Historic Site. The population was fairly stable until the 1930s, dropped after World War II when the territorial capital was moved to Whitehorse and languished around the 600-900 mark through the 1960s and 1970s, but has risen and held stable since then. The high price of gold has made modern mining operations profitable, and the growth of the tourism industry has encouraged development of facilities. In the early 1950s, Dawson was linked by roa... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=634070 ... Read more

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Chapters: St. Paul's Anglican Church (Dawson City, Yukon), Holy Trinity Anglican Church (Maple Grove, Quebec), Church of Our Lady of Good Hope, Holy Trinity Anglican Church (Alma, Prince Edward Island), All Saints Anglican Church (English Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador), St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (Calgary, Alberta). Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: St. Paul's Anglican Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Anglican church building located on the corner of Front and Church streets in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Built of wood in 1902, it once served as the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Yukon until the diocesan see was moved to Whitehorse in 1953. Its steep pitched roof, its pointed arch entry through its belfry tower and its lancet windows are typical of Carpenter Gothic churches. St. Paul's is a National Historic Site of Canada as designated by the Government of Canada on June 1, 1989. St. Paul's is still an active parish in the Diocese of Yukon. The Rev. Dr. Lee Titterington is its incumbent priest, while the Rev. Percey Henry is its deacon. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25003450 ... Read more

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Chapters: Dawson City, Herschel Island, List of Communities in Yukon, Ross River, Yukon, Burwash Landing, Yukon, Beaver Creek, Yukon, Faro, Yukon, Watson Lake, Yukon, Old Crow, Yukon, Carcross, Yukon, Pelly Crossing, Yukon, Teslin, Yukon, Forty Mile, Yukon, Carmacks, Yukon, Haines Junction, Yukon, Mayo, Yukon, Keno City, Yukon, Fort Selkirk, Yukon, Snag, Yukon, Marsh Lake, Yukon, Army Beach, Yukon, Braeburn Lodge, Destruction Bay, Yukon, Ibex Valley, Yukon, Aishihik, Yukon, Champagne, Yukon, Mount Lorne, Yukon, Tagish, Yukon, Paris, Yukon, Upper Liard, Yukon, Dezadeash, Yukon, Stewart Crossing, Yukon, Swift River, Yukon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 117. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dawson City -Yukon HotelThe townsite was founded by Joseph Francis Ladue and named in January 1897 after noted Canadian geologist George M. Dawson, who had explored and mapped the region in 1887. It served as the Yukon's capital from the territory's founding in 1898 until 1952, when the seat was moved to Whitehorse. Dawson has a much longer history, however, as an important harvest area used for millennia by the Hän-speaking people of the Trondëk Hwëchin and their forebears. The heart of their homeland was Tr'ochëk, a fishing camp at the confluence of the Klondike River and Yukon River, now a National Historic Site. This site was also an important summer gathering spot and a base for moose-hunting on the Klondike Valley. The Klondike Gold Rush started in 1896 and changed the First Nations camp into a thriving city of 40,000 by 1898. By 1899, the gold rush had ended and the town's population plummeted as all but 8,000 people left. When Dawson was incorporated as a city in 1902, the population was under 5,000. St. Paul's Anglican Church built that same year is a National Historic Site. The popul...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=634070 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Whitehorse, Yukon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aerial view of Whitehorse, Yukon, July 1990. The Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport can be seen on the bluffs to the right of downtown Whitehorse.Whitehorse is located at Historic Mile 918 (current kilometre post calibration is kilometre 1,425.3) of the Alaska Highway and is the former terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway from Skagway, Alaska (although the railway tracks still exist, the train only runs as a tourist attraction from Skagway to Carcross, south of Whitehorse). At the head of navigation on the Yukon River, the city was an important supply and centre during the Klondike Gold Rush. It has been the territorial capital since 1953, when the seat was moved from Dawson City after the construction of the Klondike Highway. Whitehorse is in the mountain climate region, the tundra soil region, the Arctic vegetation region, and the boreal cordillera ecozone. The city gets its name from the White Horse Rapids, which were said to look like the mane of a white horse. Alternate stories have the rapids named after a First Nations Chief who drowned while crossing the rapids. The rapids have disappeared under Schwatka Lake, formed by the construction of a hydroelectric dam in 1958. In addition to the central Whitehorse City Centre area, the city also includes the smaller neighbourhoods of Porter Creek, Riverdale, Granger, Crestview, Cowley Creek, Marsh Lake, Copper Ridge, Valleyview, Hillcrest, Lobird and Takhini and the Kwanlin Dun First Nation settlement (locally known as "The Village"). Like most of the Yukon, Whitehorse has a dry subarctic climate. Whitehorse experiences an annual temperature average with daily highs of 21 °C (69.8 °F) in July and average daily lows of... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33056 ... Read more

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Chapters: Mayors of Dawson City, Mayors of Whitehorse, Yukon, Peter Jenkins, Colin Mayes, Paul Lucier, Art Webster, Gordon Robertson Cameron. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Peter Jenkins (born in Montreal, Quebec on May 1, 1943) is a Canadian politician who was formerly deputy premier and health minister in the territorial government of the Yukon. Jenkins, a hotelier, first ran for the territorial legislature in 1989 but lost to NDP cabinet minister Art Webster. In that vote, Jenkins' campaign manager was future Liberal Premier Pat Duncan. Jenkins was first elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in the 1996 election in Klondike for the Yukon Party. Prior to entering provincial politics, he served as Mayor of Dawson City. He defended his seat in the 2000 election, the only Yukon Party member to do so. He assumed the leadership of the party after the election. He held the position as sole MLA and leader until May and June 2002, when Dennis Fentie crossed the floor from the NDP and won the leadership party's leadership, defeating Jenkins and former party president Darcy Tkachuk on the first ballot. He defended his seat successfully in the 2002 general election and was sworn into Cabinet in November and served as Health Minister and Deputy Premier until November 28, 2005 when he resigned from the party and cabinet. Jenkins said this was because "The heart and soul of my community has been ripped out by the inefficiences of government at the municipal level, the territorial level." Premier Dennis Fentie told the press at the time it was due to the ongoing loans file, which involved Jenkins owing $300,000 to the territorial government he was a part of. This eventually was cleared off the books in March 2006. Jenkins sat as an Independent MLA in ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6156219 ... Read more

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Aurore, Yves, Kip and the gang are back, this time fighting to save the Stanley Cup!It's 1905 and the Dawson City Nuggets have challenged legendary One-Eyed Frank McGee and the Ottawa Silver Seven for hockey's most famous trophy.It just seems like more fun to the hockey-crazed kids of Dawson City, until mysterious accidents start to knock out the Nuggets' stars . . .one by one.Yves and Kip join Joe "King of the Klondike" Boyle and the Nuggets as stick boys. They follow the team on its staggering four-thousand-mile trek to the Cup. The team suffers one mishap after another as they travel by dogsled, bike, train and ship across frozen rivers, impenetrable forest and deadly sixty-below-zero cold snaps.Can the Yukon kids find out what's happening before it's too late? Was Captain Bennet's sled accident really an accident? What did Malamute Mike mean about the "Sheriff's Curse?" And who can explain the mysterious disappearance of the Stanley Cup itself? ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Whitehorse, Dawson City, Old Crow, Carcross, Beaver Creek, Burwash Landing. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Whitehorse (qui signifie cheval blanc en français) est une ville canadienne, la capitale du territoire du Yukon. Au recensement de 2006, on y a dénombré 20 461 habitants. Ville de Whitehorse Whitehorse était un lieu de pêche, de chasse et de rassemblement estival pour les autochtones. L'endroit fut nommée ainsi vers les années 1880 par des prospecteurs blancs à cause des rapides du fleuve Yukon qui rappellent la crinière d'un cheval blanc. Après la découverte d'or au Klondike en août 1896, l'endroit est devenu un important centre d'approvisionnement de la ruée vers l'or de 1897 et 1898. Pour faciliter l'accès aux mines, la White Pass and Yukon Railway construisit un chemin de fer reliant Skagway en Alaska au territoire. La construction de la voie ferrée fut achevée le 29 juillet 1900, soit après la ruée vers l'or. Quand les États-Unis partent en guerre contre les Japonais suite à l'attaque de Pearl Harbour et à une escarmouche dans les Aléoutiennes, les Américains décident de construire, en territoire canadien, une route pour relier l'Alaska au reste de leur pays. Il faut ravitailler l'État en matériel militaire. Whitehorse devient alors la plaque tournante de la construction de la Route de l'Alaska. Elle est située au kilomètre 1489. Après la guerre, grâce à la route, Whitehorse vit grandir son rôle dans l'exploitation minière (cuivre, or, argent) et le commerce de la fourrure. Hôtel de ville de WhitehorseWhitehorse est une ville soumise à la législation municipale du Yukon et est gouvernée par un Conseil de Ville (le Whitehorse City Council) formé de six conseillers et d'un maire, élus t...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more