Near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.
One of a group of people, sometimes called the Skookum party, discovered placer gold on Bonanza Creek on August 16, 1896. It is not really known which member of the party discovered the gold. There is a link below.
Most of the West was impacted by the goldrush. However, California and the Black Hills of South Dakota were some of the most severely impacted.
Canada was discovered in antiquity by the people of the First Nations.
The Klondike Gold Rush happened then. On August 16, large gold deposits were found in Bonanza Creek in the Yukon.
Klondike region
gold in yukon
During the Klondike Gold Rush (or Yukon Gold Rush), there was massive immigration and gold prospecting along the Dawson River in the Yukon Territory, in Northwestern Canada.
They found gold in the Yukon.
1897
A potato
the people that discovered it
THE GREAT YUKON GOLD RUSH. Was in Canada and not Alaska as popualrly believed.
The Gold Standard
a gold standard
in Northern Quebec and the Yukon
The sourdoughs discovered gold during the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s. It was during this time that gold was found in the Yukon territory of Canada, attracting thousands of prospectors, including the sourdoughs who were experienced miners.