« Tout le monde à bord pour le Klondike ». Le merveilleux aéronautique et quelques projets de vols vers les gisements aurifères du nord canadien, 1897-1898

• Published in: Scientia Canadensis
• Main Author: Rénald Fortier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Consortium Erudit 2016
• Subjects: Sciences Humaines et Sociales; Social Sciences and Humanities; aviation; ballon dirigeable; Klondike; Yukon; hist; anthro-se; Northwest Territories; Canada; Fleuve Yukon; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; Yukon river; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/scientia/2015-v38-n2-scientia02714/1037947ar.pdf; https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/scientia/2015-v38-n2-scientia02714/1037947ar.pdf; https://doi.org/10.7202/1037947ar; https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/scientia/2015-v38-n2-scientia02714/1037947ar/; https://core.ac.uk/display/74337883; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1037947ar; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2561216699; https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1037947ar

In 1897, gold seekers from all over the world rushed to the Klondike, in what was then the Yukon district of the Northwest Territories. Reaching this isolated region of Northern Canada was difficult, however. There were no roads or railroads and the Yukon River was frozen much of the year. As a resu...