Sunset view from Midnight Dome of Dawson City at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers - Yukon Territory.
Dawson City is the heart of the world-famous Klondike Gold Rush.
In August of 1896, three Yukon "Sourdoughs", George Carmack, Dawson Charlie, and Skookum Jim found gold in Rabbit Creek, now called Bonanza Creek, and changed the history of the Yukon forever.
Thirty thousand (some say fifty) pick-and-shovel miners, prospectors, storekeepers, saloon keepers, bankers, gamblers, prostitutes and con men from every corner of the continent poured through snow-choked mountain passes and down the Yukon River to stake their claim to fortune on creeks with names like Eldorado, Bonanza, Last Chance and Too Much Gold.
An incredible community that has preserved its past, most of Dawson's buildings look old-fashioned, all new construction must follow this policy.
Today, you can meander the wooden boardwalks and wander the same streets of Dawson City that inspired world famous authors Jack London, Pierre Berton and poet Robert Service.
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