“Gateway” to the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands: The White Pass & Yukon Route Railway, the North-West Mounted Police, and the Klondike Gold Rush
As the Klondike gold rush brought thousands to the Alaska-Yukon borderlands, the British owned, American operated White Pass & Yukon Route constructed a railway from Skagway, Alaska, across the far northwest corner of British Columbia, to Whitehorse, Yukon to supply the gold fields. During its e...
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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/196766 2023-08-27T04:11:58+02:00 “Gateway” to the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands: The White Pass & Yukon Route Railway, the North-West Mounted Police, and the Klondike Gold Rush Dumonceaux, Scott 2022-09-28 application/pdf http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/196766 https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.no214.196766 eng eng The University of British Columbia http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/196766/192253 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/196766 doi:10.14288/bcs.no214.196766 Copyright (c) 2022 BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly; No. 214: Summer 2022; 49-73 0005-2949 10.14288/bcs.no214 gold rush railways land settlement police and policing info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2022 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.no214.19676610.14288/bcs.no214 2023-08-06T17:39:08Z As the Klondike gold rush brought thousands to the Alaska-Yukon borderlands, the British owned, American operated White Pass & Yukon Route constructed a railway from Skagway, Alaska, across the far northwest corner of British Columbia, to Whitehorse, Yukon to supply the gold fields. During its early years (1898-1900), the railway faced a harsh northern environment, potentially ruinous competition, the problem of moving goods across the Alaska-Yukon border, and incorporating the line into the rest of the Yukon transportation system. The solution to these problems was to form a close relationship with the Canadian North-West Mounted Police. Working together, both groups took part in the transformation of the Alaska-Yukon borderlands, creating a functional border that allowed the police to reliably transport supplies to the Yukon and British Columbia and the railway to dominate the Yukon transportation system. Article in Journal/Newspaper Skagway Whitehorse Alaska Yukon Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) White Pass ENVELOPE(-135.143,-135.143,59.613,59.613) Yukon |
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As the Klondike gold rush brought thousands to the Alaska-Yukon borderlands, the British owned, American operated White Pass & Yukon Route constructed a railway from Skagway, Alaska, across the far northwest corner of British Columbia, to Whitehorse, Yukon to supply the gold fields. During its early years (1898-1900), the railway faced a harsh northern environment, potentially ruinous competition, the problem of moving goods across the Alaska-Yukon border, and incorporating the line into the rest of the Yukon transportation system. The solution to these problems was to form a close relationship with the Canadian North-West Mounted Police. Working together, both groups took part in the transformation of the Alaska-Yukon borderlands, creating a functional border that allowed the police to reliably transport supplies to the Yukon and British Columbia and the railway to dominate the Yukon transportation system. |
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“Gateway” to the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands: The White Pass & Yukon Route Railway, the North-West Mounted Police, and the Klondike Gold Rush |
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