Forty Mile
Ghost town · Canada
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 64.450, -140.550
Why it was abandoned
⛏️ Gold rush
Detected automatically from the text: Первое постоянное поселение в Юконе, до этого были только торговые посты, один из центров клондайкской золотой лихорадки.
History
Forty Mile is best known as the oldest town in Canada's Yukon. It was established in 1886 at the confluence of the Yukon and Fortymile rivers by prospectors and fortune hunters in search of gold. Largely abandoned during the nearby Klondike Gold Rush, the town site continued to be used by Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. It is currently a historic site that is co-owned and co-managed by Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in and the Government of Yukon. Ch’ëdähdëk became part of the Tr’ondëk-Klondike UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023, recording of the transformation of the landscape and the Indigenous adaptation to European colonization.