| Summary: | Caption on image: Potlatch dance This postcard was mailed from Carcross, Yukon on September 11, 1955 Filed in Yukon Territory At the northern tip of Bennett Lake, on the old Gold Rush trail, lies the village of Carcross. It lies 74 kilometres south of Whitehorse on the Klondike Highway and about the same distance north of Skagway, Alaska. Once a hunting and fishing camp for Inland Tlingit and Tagish people, Carcross became a key stopover and supply centre during the Klondike Gold Rush. The White Pass and Yukon railway station was built in 1901, and Carcross became a major transportation centre. Although Carcross still provides some highway services for the South Klondike Highway, tourism has taken over as a mainstay of the local economy.
|
|---|