The Yukon Residents database includes permanent and temporary names of Yukon residents who lived or worked in the Yukon from 1894 to 1958. The names were compiled from a limited number of archival resources (ie. Anglican Church band lists, government records, and manuscripts) plus library sources (regimental histories, 1935 town directory & telephone directories, etc.). The database currently includes only Yukon residents living in the central and southern Yukon. Residents living in the northern Yukon (such as Old Crow, Rampart House, etc.) have not been entered due to time constraints. View the sources

This database provides an index to 2495 francophone Yukoners who lived and worked in the Yukon from 1825-1950. The Association franco-yukonnaise published the book 'Empreinte: la presence francophone au Yukon (1825-1950)' in 1997. The book includes brief profiles of some of the people listed in it. The database provides access to the print copy by name and page on which the person is listed. Can be searched by surname, given name, page and call number."

Yukon Archives has a print copy of 'Empreinte: la presence francophone au Yukon (1825-1950)', located at 929.371 91 Empr (2 vol. set).

The Sourdough Air Display has become one of the largest civilian airshows that is held annually in Canada. The database was created to list all the 3075 personnel and planes that have been at the show since 1974 during the Sourdough Rendezvous week. Information on the first three shows (1971-1973) isn't available either in the print or electronic copy.

The Yukon Archives has a print copy ‘Sourdough Air Display, 1971-2006', which has extra information on the Air Display, located at 797.5 SAD

This database was copied from the original Yukon Barristers Roll that has been maintained by the Supreme Court Chambers since 1898. The computerized roll lists 831 lawyers who have practiced in the Yukon from 1898 to 1997 and provides information on date of birth, date of death, place of birth, university attended, etc. Can be searched by surname, given name, date of call/certificate#, and call number.

The Yukon Archives has a computer printout of the Yukon Barristers Roll located at PAM 1997-0238.

Pioneer Cemetery, on Sixth Avenue in Whitehorse, had approximately 800 interments between 1900 and 1965. The cemetery was closed in 1965. The burials are documented in a City of Whitehorse publication entitled 'Lost Graves'. Published in 1989, 'Lost Graves' was researched by Margaret (Peg) Crook and Helen Horback and compiled by Norma Felker. It is organized in subsets of church records and for a number of persons it contains additional details such as obituaries from local newspapers. The database provides name, date of death and age of each individual buried. The publication 'Lost Graves' is held at the Yukon Archives and is located at: Ref 929.5 Cro.

This database lists 4108 deaths and burials in cemeteries in Dawson City and surrounding area. Most of the cemeteries listed are in Dawson City and provides cemetery, names and date of death.

Grey Mountain Cemetery, located in Riverdale, Whitehorse, was opened in 1965 by the City of Whitehorse. This database consists of 399 interments from 1960 to 1976 and provides name, date of death, and age. Due to privacy concerns burials after 1976 are not included in the database.

This database lists 2121 names, obituary date, and age of individuals that died in the Yukon from 1966-2005.

The index consists of 1,730 names of people who were either travelling to or living in the Klondike who had relatives interested in contacting them. The relatives would either write a Dawson newspaper, a government department, or the North West Mounted Police requesting information regarding their family member. If no information was available notices would then be placed in the local newspapers asking the public if they had information on the location of the missing people.

Please consult with the Archives reference staff for further information (yukon.archives@gov.yk.ca).

The Yukon business table includes small businesses, professionals, government departments, organizations and services that operated in the Yukon during the years 1898-1904, 1911/1912, 1915/1916, 1946, 1948-1952. The names were compiled from telephone books, town directories and early Klondike newspapers. The coverage only includes the central and southern Yukon.

The 1891 census included the communities of Peel River Post, Rampart House and LaPierre House. The Library and Archives Canada microfilm reel T6426 is now available for searching on: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1891/Pages/1891.aspx (in order to narrow down search to the above communities you will need to change the "Province" window to "Northwest Territories").

The 1901 census reel T-6556 includes the communities ranging from Klondike Gold Fields to Teslin in southern Yukon. The census reel T6428 includes the northern British Columbia communities of Atlin, Cassiar, McDame, etc. The Library and Archives Canada microfilm reel T6428 is now available for searching on: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1901/Pages/1901.aspx (in order to narrow down search to the above communities you will need to change the "Province" window to "The Territories").

The database includes the names, date of birth, death and/or marriage, community and the article title that appeared in the Whitehorse Star from 1964 to 1965.

In the late 1890's, Skagway and Dyea, Alaska were hotbeds of violent crime. The Arctic Brotherhood was the Alaskan equivalent of the Yukon Order of Pioneers (whose motto was "do as you would be done by"). It was formed during the Gold Rush era to ensure stampeders' rights were protected. The 1899 Arctic Brotherhood Hall can still be visited in Skagway. With 20,000 pieces of driftwood tacked to the front of it, it's hard to miss. The Arctic Brotherhood Hall, established in 1899, remains a historic site in Skagway, Alaska today.

These are the 73 victims of a killer avalanche on the Chilkoot Pass. In April, 1898, a thunderous, 30-foot wave of snow swept down the Chilkoot, bouncing boulders and burying dozens of stampeders alive. While some of the buried were rescued by frantic friends, 73 others were not so fortunate, their cries muffled and their bodies forever entombed by thousands of pounds of snow.

These are the passengers who were registered aboard the S.S. Canadian Islander, which sank August 15, 1901. It is something of a miracle that the Islander didn't sink earlier. In KLONDIKE, Pierre Berton describes its maiden voyage: "The horses were wedged side by side so tightly that there was no way for them to lie down. Many of these wretched creatures had their heads so close to the engines that they were in a state of continual panic, rearing, biting..."

Benjamin F. Craig was a post office worker in Dawson City. He maintained a list of people leaving the Klondike by death or departure. Many of the almost 14,000 entries list forwarding addresses or destinations for those leaving the Klondike. The predominance of Nome, Alaska as one listed destination is consistent with other historical records documenting a mass exodus from Dawson to Nome in 1899. Like a giant nomadic tribe, thousands streamed toward Nome when rumours hit Dawson that there were flakes of gold in the sands of Nome's beaches.

In 1902, the Dawson Daily News ran its "Golden Cleanup Edition." Records of all claims staked during the past several years on creeks such as Bonanza and Eldorado were printed for public perusal. You can look up Klondike heroes such as Antone Stander (also known as "The Lucky Swede") to view the gold claims that made him a wealthy man.

This is a partial list of Dawson City's Council members. With entries ranging from the mid-1800's to the 1980's, it is unclear who created or maintained these records. Names are followed by titles such as Territorial Secretary, Mayor and Legal Advisor. Some dates are listed.

After gold was discovered in 1896 on Bonanza Creek, thousands of claims were staked along tributaries of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. The Yukon Gold Commissioner's Office issued "Placermining Grants," enabling prospectors to become miners and work their claims for "placer" findings (mineral deposits containing gold, left by glaciers or rivers ). This, the first of three Placermining Grants volumes, lists almost 20,000 numbered grants and the names of their owners.

After gold was discovered in 1896 on Bonanza Creek, thousands of claims were staked along tributaries of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. The Yukon Gold Commissioner's Office issued "Placermining Grants," enabling prospectors to become miners and work their claims for "placer" findings (mineral deposits containing gold, left by glaciers or rivers ). This, the first of three Placermining Grants volumes, lists almost 20,000 numbered grants and the names of their owners.

Yukon doctors and nurses wore many hats in the days of the Klondike gold rush. A doctor had to pass as internist, orthopedic surgeon, obstetrician, dentist, and even detective. Tackling emergencies with little equipment, a Yukon doctor usually worked in isolation. Most often, only one doctor inhabited a 400 mile radius. This database provides names of early medical professionals in the Yukon.

During the winter of 1898-'99, for example, two huge infernos laid waste to extensive and expensive commercial real estate on Dawson City's main streets. In the words of some writers, Dawson was "too cheap" to pay for fire fighting equipment, but the town did maintain a volunteer fire department. This database includes the names of men who joined the Dawson Volunteer Fire Department in 1899.

These records contain names, date and cause of death, attending doctor, funeral arrangements, and other information about individuals who died in the Klondike region between 1898 and 1938. The information was taken from the mortuary records of J.A. Greene, Frank Lowe, Edwards and Winaut, and Alex Wark.

A sisterhood of women who took part in the Klondike Gold Rush evolved into the Golden North Fraternity. The movement for women's equality in the had emerged during the 1890's, and women began to insist that anything a man could do a woman could do better. This database includes the names and titles of female officers of the Golden North Fraternity.

The table provides a list of residents who lived in Dawson and surrounding area from 1896 to 1920. This database was compiled by Charlene Porsild, a PhD candidate, for her thesis “Culture, Class and Community: New Perspectives on the Klondike Gold Rush, 1896-1905” that was published in the early 1990s. The thesis’ bibliography provides information on the sources indicated in the last 3 columns of the table. Please consult with the Yukon Archives (yukon.archives@gov.yk.ca) or the Dawson City Museum (info@dawsonmuseum.ca) for further information.

During the Klondike Gold Rush, laws were scant. In 1894, a thickset, gruff and incorruptible Charles Constantine of the North West Mounted Police arrived to restore order. A year later, a detachment of 20 NWMP officers followed. The Klondike Gold Rush would have been a nightmare of crime and vigilante justice without them. This database features the names of those early officers.

Polks Gazetteer was a social directory of sorts. Several thousand names of individuals living in the Dawson City area are listed in this 1903 database.

The index consists of 3,020 entries of names, businesses and organizations, arranged alphabetically by surname, business/organization name that appeared in the Dawson City section of the Gazetteer. The index is based on a microfilmed copy of the 1917-1918 Gazetteer and due to poor quality of some of the microfilm sections the entries were either partially or completely illegible. Names that couldn’t be read were denoted with a question mark (?), and those that were partially legible were finished with ellipses (…). If there appeared to be a discrepancy between spellings, both were included in the index separated by a backslash (/).

Clergymen lived and worked among the Klondike stampeders during the late 1800s. Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Presbyterian congregations developed within the Yukon from 1861 to 1898. This database contains the names of Yukon clergymen and their dates of service.

"Sourdough" was fermented flour and water that Klondike stampeders carried with them ready to cook. Eventually, "sourdough" became the term used to describe the miners themselves: "One who had been in the country long enough to see the ice form in the fall and break up in the spring." Little is known about the Sourdough Stampede Association, but in this database you'll find the names of some of its members.

As Dawson City's population exploded, more and more children played on its ragged streets. Parents attempted to safeguard their youngsters from Klondike debauchery by developing a strict education system. Based on the British Columbia model, this system provided free education up to university. This database includes St. Mary's student records dating back to 1899.

On October 19, 1918, the crew and passengers of the S.S. Princess Sophia perished in the icy waters of the Lynn Canal, 65 miles south of Skagway. Rescue ships stood by helplessly, battling mountainous waves and freezing temperatures as 379 men, women and children were lost at sea. This database lists the names of those who drowned.

More than 250 steamboats plied the Yukon River from the late 1890s to the early 1950s. Many were shipwrecked along the mighty river, smashed to bits by rapids, rocks, trees and sandbars. This database lists the names and fates of Yukon River steamships.

The North West Mounted Police were dispatched by the Canadian federal government to maintain law and order in the midst of Klondike chaos. The mounties set up a post along the Canadian-American border at the summit of the Chilkoot Pass. Here, they confiscated guns and maintained written records of every individual who arrived at the summit. This database contains some of those records (December 1898 to May, 1899).

This North West Mounted Police database appears to have been created by an amalgamation of archival records from both the Chilkoot Pass and Lake Bennett. At Lake Bennett, the mounties kept records of all boats built by stampeders to carry them along the Yukon River to Dawson City.

The North West Mounted Police were dispatched by the Canadian federal government to maintain law and order in the midst of Klondike chaos. The mounties set up a post along the Canadian-American border at the summit of the Chilkoot Pass. Here, they confiscated guns and maintained written records of every individual who arrived at the summit. This database contains some of those records (December 1898 to May, 1899).

These records list the names and boat numbers of stampeders embarking on the Yukon River trip from Lake Bennett to Dawson City. Led by legendary mountie Sam Steele, the North West Mounted Police contingent at Lake Bennett worked painstakingly to keep track of the flotilla of 7,000 boats, skows, barges and rafts.

The second of three volumes of Lake Bennett records maintained by the North West Mounted Police.

These records list the names and boat numbers of stampeders embarking on the Yukon River trip from Lake Bennett to Dawson City. Led by legendary mountie Sam Steele, the North West Mounted Police contingent at Lake Bennett worked painstakingly to keep track of the flotilla of 7,000 boats, skows, barges and rafts.

Just as they kept track of Chilkoot crossings and boats built at Lake Bennett, the North West Mounted Police maintained records of individuals arriving at and leaving Dawson City on Yukon River steamships. These dockside archives list ships such as the S.S. Nora, S.S. Gleaver, S.S. Bailey and S.S Australian as INWARDS or OUTWARDS (bound).

Crime ran like a river through the north during the early years of gold prospecting. On Dec. 1, 1894, the Yukon Order of Pioneers was created to maintain ethical standards. Living by the motto "do unto others as you would be done by," YOOP's pledged to protect other members and share news of a gold discoveries. This database features membership records from the early years of the Order.