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- Dawson City Music Festival
Annual celebration of music, dance, and the Yukon summer.
www.dcmf.com
- Klondike Visitors Association
Attractions, events, history, and activities in Dawson City, the heart of the Klondike Gold Rush.
www.dawsoncity.org
- Yukon Arts Centre
Exhibits, performances, and special events.
www.yukonartscentre.org
- Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park
Park celebrates the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 through 15 restored buildings within the Skagway Historic District.
www.nps.gov/klgo
- Northern Lights Centre
Features an interactive display that explains the science and folklore of the Northern Lights.
www.northernlightscentre.ca
- Yukon International Storytelling Festival
Annual event involving storytellers from around the world. Features audio clips, pictures, downloadable application form, elderhostel programme information, and more.
www.storytelling.yk.net
- Yukon Genealogy
Provides a searchable database with information on people who may have lived or worked in the Yukon Territory. Records include placer mining applications, a postmaster's list of people traveling in the Klondike, death records, and the 1901 census for Dawson City. Affiliated with the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society.
www.yukongenealogy.com
- Downtown Hotel
Offers the look and feel of the Klondike era with swinging-door saloon, Jack London dining room, and turn-of-the-century decor.
www.downtown.yk.net
- Stories From the Gold Rush
Tales of the people and villages associated with the Klondike and Alaskan gold rushes.
www.postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/gold2.html
- Klondike Trail Society
Residents interested in mapping and marking the Trail from Edmonton to Dawson City used during the Klondike Gold Rush.
www.klondiketrail.ca
- Carcross Community School
Features a comprehensive section on Yukon history, both pictorially and written, as well as a section to highlight the community, school, and students.
www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/carcross
- Dawson City Arts Society
Features courses in many art disciplines, local artists web sites, and hosts arts events.
www.dawsonarts.com
- American Experience: Gold Fever
Companion web site to the PBS series program on the 1890s Yukon Territory gold rush.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/gold
- Klondike Gold Rush Links
Presents an extensive series of original articles, along with external links, about the details of the Klondike gold rush. Includes recaps of specific events, stories from individual stampeders, and more.
explorenorth.com/library/ya/bl22y.htm
- Parks Canada: Klondike National Historic Site
Commemorates the discovery of gold in 1896 and the role of large corporation mining in the Klondike.
www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/yt/ssklondike/natcul/index_e.asp
- Alaska's Gold
Learn about the Alaska gold rush through primary source materials such as diaries, newspapers, maps, photographs, government documents, and things people used in their everyday lives.
www.library.state.ak.us/goldrush
- As Precious as Gold
National Postal Museum exhibit that explores the last great gold rush of the 19th century and the role of the mail carriers who provided contact between those so far from home and the families they left behind.
www.postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/asprecious.html
- Hard Drive to the Klondike: Promoting Seattle During the Gold Rush
A multimedia historic resource study for the Seattle unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Includes chapters on the building of Seattle, interpreting the Klondike Gold Rush, and historical resources in the modern era.
www.nps.gov/klse/hrs/hrstoc.htm
- Peters Drury Trio, The
Canadian jazz band.
pdt.yk.net
- Odd Gallery
Exhibition program features contemporary, visual art and design.
www.kiac.org/odd
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