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The town grew up as the terminus where prospectors transferred from the Skagway train to the Yukon River steamboats and is now the junction of the Alaska and Klondike highways.
By 1852, at the peak of the mining boom, there were over 100,000 prospectors in the region, all fiercely individualistic, working away at their personal, private stakes rather than banding together in organized syndicates.
St. Paul’s Church shows a good film on the Klondike days, while Dawson City Museum gives you all the inside information about gold-mining, displaying prospectors’ tools and paraphernalia.
In a subarctic land of soaring mountains and elongated glacial lakes beside the great Yukon River, today’s tourists can thank yesterday’s prospectors for using part of their paydirt for some essential creature comforts.
Governor Frederick Weld (1880–1887) extended the residency system to Negeri Sembila n and the more recalcitrant Pahang, where the Sultan Wan Ahmad was forced to open the Kuantan tin mines to British prospectors.