Conflict and Competition: The Klondike Gold Rush (Grades 7-9)

Selected Resources

Parks Canada Web site

www.pc.gc.ca/resource4
 

National Historic Sites

• Administered by Parks Canada:
  • Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site of Canada
  • Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Sites of Canada
  • Dredge No. 4 National Historic Site of Canada
  • S.S. Keno National Historic Site of Canada
  • S.S. Klondike National Historic Site of Canada
     

Teacher's Corner

• Commemorating Canada's History:
  • People, Places, and Events:
    • Search the keywords "Klondike", "gold rush"
    • Historical Trivia: People: Questions 1 and 3; People & Events: Question 1

• Images of Parks Canada:
  • Browse the Collection:
    • Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site of Canada
    • S.S. Keno National Historic Site of Canada
    • S.S. Klondike National Historic Site of Canada

This Week in History Archives

• Search the keyword "Klondike"
• Relevant Results: "Gold!!!", "‘First Lady' of the Yukon", "Songs of a Sourdough"
   

Click here to view a larger version of this image. (This image is larger than 450 pixels) Skookum Jim "Keish" Mason, Person of National Historic Significance. © NAC/C-25640

What's New

• News Releases:
  • Discovery Claim
  • James "Skookum Jim" Mason
     

Check the bottom of the news releases for associated backgrounders.
 

Videos

• Places in Time (video) - segment on "Dawson City"
• Historylands - Episode 3 - "Chilkoot Trail," Episode 20 - "Heart of the Klondike, Dawson City," Episode 28 - "Money to Die For - Royal Canadian Mint"
   

Other Resources

• Dawson City Buildings
  www.onroute.com/destinations/yukon/daws2.html
• The Klondike Visitors Association
  www.dawsoncity.org
• Museum of Civilisation
  www.civilization.ca Search the keywords “Yukon Gold Rush”.
• Yukon Photographers: Gold Rush Era
  www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Goldrushphoto
• The Best of Robert Service. Wm. C. Brown, 2001
• Chilkoot Trail: Heritage Route to the Klondike by David Neufeld and Frank Norris. Lost Moose, The Yukon Publishers, 1996. ©Parks Canada
• Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush by Pierre Berton. Doubleday Canada, 2001
• The Songs of Robert Service. McLaughlin Prescott Entertainment, 2000. (CD)
• Yukon Gold: Story of the Klondike Gold Rush by Charlotte Jones. Thomas Allen and Son, 1998