info about Yukon

Yukon is larger than life with breathtaking wilderness, a wealth of opportunities, abundant natural resources and friendly welcoming people. It is home to a skilled and educated work force, modern infrastructure and endless options for outdoor activities year-round.

In 1898, two years after the start of the Klondike Gold Rush, which brought a stampede of about 100,000 fortune seekers to within its borders, the Yukon became Canada's second northern territory - and would soon become a beehive of human activity.

The site of an Indian fishing camp in 1896, four years later Dawson City emerged as Canada's largest urban centre west of Winnipeg, with a population as high as 40,000 consisting of people coming and going in search of gold.

Today, Dawson City, Yukon's second largest city, is home to nearly 2,000 people out of a total territorial population of just over 31,000 - most of it (almost 23,000) based in the capital, Whitehorse.

Yet Yukoners haven't minded trading early 20th-century frenetic activity for 21st-century tranquility where the territory's "untouched wilderness" is a source of great pride for its people.

Kluane National Park, situated in the southwestern corner of the Yukon and a United Nations World Heritage Site, contains Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan. Surrounding the 6,050-metre-tall mountain are several massive glaciers, including the world's largest non-polar ice fields - an area "where the Ice Age isn't over yet," according to a Yukon government promotion.

Ironically, the Yukon was spared the deep freeze the last great Ice Age had on the rest of Canada. Untouched by glaciers, the area was part of a region that joined Asia and America known as Beringia from which North America's first inhabitants - and ancestors to the Yukon's First Nations people - are believed to have arrived at least 24,000 years ago.

Yukon is an excellent place to live, work and play - it is a way of life.

Programs and Services contact information

If you have problems contacting a Yukon government program or service, you can call the Inquiry Centre at the (867) 667-5811. If you live outside Whitehorse, you can call the government's toll free number 1-800-661-0408. This number does not work outside Yukon.

Inquiry Centre (Information Desk) 667-5811. Outside Whitehorse toll free 1-800-661-0408.

To access the number for the Telecommunications Device for the Hearing Impaired (TDD) please call (867) 393-7460. Outside Whitehorse call Relay Operator.

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