Yukon Territory

Yukon Territory

A territory of northwest Canada east of Alaska. It joined the Confederacy in 1898. The region was first explored by fur traders in the 1840s and was acquired by Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870. A land claim made by the Yukon tribe of Native Americans was approved by the federal government in 1991. Whitehorse is the capital and the largest city. Population: 30,400.

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Yukon Territory - a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s Yukon Canada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world" Dawson - a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike Klondike - a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910 Whitehorse - the provincial capital of the Yukon Territory Logan, Mount Logan - a mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high) St. Elias Mountains, St. Elias Range - a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory