Mountie and dogs at Canadian telegraph station, ca. 1900

• Main Author: Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Gold rushes; Log buildings; Government facilities Mounted police; Dogs; North West Mounted Police (Canada); Yukon; Canada; British Columbia; Hegg; Carcross; Skagway; Yukon river
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/6983

Caribou Crossing was a railroad stop on the Yukon River where caribou crossed during their annual migration. The town was near the border of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory, some 67 miles north of Skagway and over 500 miles from the gold fields. The town had buildings housing Canadian customs, a telegraph office, and the North West Mounted Police. This photo, taken around 1900, shows a member of the North West Mounted Police and two dogs outside the log building which houses the telegraph office and police station in Caribou Crossing, Yukon Territory. In 1904, the Canadian post office changed the town's name to Carcross. Original title: N.W.M.P. North West Mounted Police and Canadian telegraph station. Cariboo Crossing, Y.T. Yukon Territory. Original photograph: Hegg, Eric, ca. 1900. Copied after 1902 by Webster & Stevens 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w; 20 x 24 cm.