The Yukon Archives acquires, preserves, and provides access
to the Yukon's documentary heritage. Photocopy, map and
photograph reproduction services are available. If you are
unable to visit the Archives in person, reference assistance
is available through correspondence.
Yukon Archives:
Finding Aids
Family History Research
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Yukon
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The
Yukon Archives acquires, preserves, and provides
access to the Yukon's documentary
heritage. Photocopy, map and photograph reproduction
services are available. If you are unable to
visit the Archives in person, reference assistance is
available through correspondence.
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Contact the Yukon Archives |
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Before contacting the Yukon Archives, please review
their Finding Aid
"Genealogical Research at the Yukon Archives." Once you
have reviewed
this resource list, you can contact the Archives to
pursue further
research into your Yukon ancestor.
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GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
AT THE YUKON ARCHIVES
A Listing of Available Resource Material
Revised Edition, AUGUST 2003
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Yukon Archives
400 College Drive
Yukon Place (Beside Yukon College)
Whitehorse, Yukon |
Yukon Archives
Department of Tourism & Culture
Government of Yukon
Box Number 2703
Whitehorse, Yukon
Canada Y1A 2C6 |
Phone: 867-667-5321
Toll free (In Yukon): 1-800-661-0408, local 5321
Fax: 867-393-6253
E-Mail:
[email protected] |
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Yukon Archives Collections |
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Government Records - documents date back to 1896 and
pertain to a wide
range of subjects, including education, transportation,
legislation and
land. Also among the territorial records are Territorial
and Gold
Commissioner's Court records, and estate files of the
Public
Administrator. The Archives also serves as a repository
for the records
of Yukon municipalities, including Dawson, Whitehorse,
Mayo, Faro,
Watson Lake, and Haines Junction.
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Photographs - collection portrays miners and mining
activities, dredges,
sternwheelers and river travel, pack-trains and
stagelines, aviation,
the Alaska Highway, White Pass & Yukon Route
construction and operation,
boat building, Yukon Order of Pioneers, Indians, North
West Mounted
Police, churches, schools, portraits, and scenes of the
Klondike Gold
Rush and Trails of '98.
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Corporate Records - records of various Yukon
organizations,
associations, and businesses. These include the papers
of the White Pass
& Yukon Route, 1899-1960, documenting river, rail and
land operations;
correspondence and dredging records of the Yukon Gold
Company,
1907-1920; records of the Whitehorse Chapter of the
Arctic Brotherhood,
1901-1903; Yukon Order of Pioneer records, 1886-1980;
Anglican Church
Diocese of Yukon records.
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Private Manuscripts - collection includes diaries,
correspondence,
scrapbooks, account books and other papers of
individuals who have been
associated with the Yukon in various capacities. Some
examples are
Klondike Gold Rush diaries.
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Films - documentary films as well as amateur home movies
and videotapes
about life and times in the Yukon are acquired by the
Archives.
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Sound Recordings - collection of tapes about Native
history and
traditions, pioneers recounting life and events in Yukon
communities.
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Library - for reference in the reading room. Primarily
Yukon in
geographical emphasis, the collection includes history,
ethnography,
northern development in general, community surveys,
social and economic
studies.
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Maps and Plans - collection of maps, plans and atlases
relating to Yukon
and northwest Canada. Included are exploration maps,
gold rush route
maps, townsite and lot plans, river charts, detailed
mining claim and
base line survey maps and numerous sketches for creeks
and tributaries
in the Klondike Gold Fields.
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Newspapers - collection includes the Dawson News,
1899-1953; Klondike
Nugget, 1898-1903; Yukon Sun, 1899-1904; Whitehorse
Star, 1901-to date,
and other early Yukon newspapers in their original form
and on
microfilm.
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Circulating Microfilm Collection - newspaper and
archival microfilm
collection that is available for loan to libraries
(ILL).
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