Colourful frontier buildings line old-time boardwalks in Dawson City, and a vintage sternwheeler intertwines the present with the Klondike Gold Rush days, when some 50,000 gold-seekers stampeded north. Visit the goldfields, a barren landscape of dreams, and the elegant Commissioner’s residence. Explore a famed poet’s historic log cabin and a gold rush theatre, and experience a magical northern town in the heart of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory. Dans la ville de Dawson, de pittoresques bâtiments colorés bordent d’anciennes promenades de bois. Remontez au temps des saloons et du bateau à aubes. À Dawson, le présent s’entremêle à l’époque de la ruée vers l’or du Klondike en 1898, alors que près de 50 000 chercheurs d’or se sont précipités dans la région nordique. Visitez les champs aurifères, un paysage désert empreint de rêves, l’élégante résidence du commissaire. Visitez la cabane en bois rond d’un poète renommé ou un théâtre de style européen. Baignez dans le charme féérique de cette ville nordique, au cœur du territoire traditionnel des Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. Source: Parks Canada Website (2022)

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The contents of brochures can be viewed by clicking on the cover. These items are historical in scope and are intended for educational purposes only; they are not meant as an aid for travel planning.

Robert W. Service 1974		Robert W. Service 1980
1983		c2010s
2015		You Had To See It To Believe It Date Unknown	Il fallait le voir pour le croire Date Unknown
Historic Buildings of Dawson City Date Unknown		Les bâtiments historiques de Dawson City Date Unknown
Historische Gebäude der Dawson City Date Unknown		Geocache Passport/Passeport Géocache Date Unknown
Gold Mining and the Creeks 1977	South Dawson City Walking Tour Date Unknown	Dawson Walking Tour 2020	Dawson Visite à Pied 2020
2016 Summer Program 2016	2016 Programme d'été 2016	2017 Program 2017	2017 Programme 2017
2023 Interpretive Programs 2023	Checklist of the Birds of Dawson Yukon 2008	List des Oiseaux du Yukon 2008
Bear Creek (Deutsch) Date Unknown		Commissioner's Residence (Deutsch) Date Unknown
Dawson City das Herz des Klondike's (Deutsch) Date Unknown		Discovery Claim, Bonanza Creek (Deutsch) Date Unknown
Das "Grosse Palast" Theater (Deutsch) Date Unknown		Robert Service Blockhause (Deutsch) Date Unknown
The Dawson City Gaslight Follies 1970

Commemorative Integrity Statement / Énoncé d'intégrité commémorative (Parks Canada, September 3, 1997)

Management Plan (2004, 2018) / Plan directeur (2004, 2018) (Parks Canada)

Management Plan Direction / Orientation proposée pour le plan directeur (Parks Canada, 2015)

Management Planning Newsletter #1 / Bulletin n^o 1 (Parks Canada, undated)

State of the Site Report 2010 / Rapport sur l'état du lieu 2010 (Parks Canada, 2011)

A Cultural Cartography of the Tr'ondëk-Klondike: Mapping plural Knowledges (David Neufeld, extract from Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien Sonderheft, 2018)

A Master Development Plan for the Klondike National Historic Sites (Parks Canada, October 1978)

A Structural History of the Administration Building, Dawson, Yukon Territory Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 217 (Margaret E. Archibald, Parks Canada, 1977)

After the Gold Rush (Charlotte Gray, extract from Canada's History, Vol. 90 No. 5 December 2010-January 2011)

Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields (A.C. Harris, 1897)

Archaeological Investigations of Transient Residences on the Hillsides Surrounding Dawson City, Yukon Occasional Papers in Archaeology No. 12 (Michael Brand, Yukon Heritage Branch, 2002)

Banking in the Klondike, 1898-1968 Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 118 (Edward F. Bush, Parks Canada, 1973)

Cheechakos, Sourdoughs and Soiled Doves: Men, Women, and Community in a Klondike Gold Rush Boomtown 1896-1904 (©Megan J. Highet, PhD thesis University of Alberta, 2015)

Climate Change Adaptation Workshop: Dawson Historical Complex Historic Site, Dawson City Y.T. / Série de rapports d'ateliers sur l'adaptation aux changements climatiques : Complexe-Historique-de-Dawson, Dawson City, Yn (Parks Canada, September 2017)

Commissioners of the Yukon, 1897-1918, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 10 (Edward F. Bush, Parks Canada, 1974)

Dawson City: Heart of the Klondike (Parks Canada, 1975)

Dawson City: Three Structural Histories Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 383 (Richard G. Stuart, Parks Canada, 1980)

Dawson, San Francisco of the North, or Boomtown in a Bog: A Literature Review Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 241 (Hal Guest, Parks Canada, 1978)

Design Guidelines for Historic Dawson (Randy Mitchell, Parks Canada, c1980s)

Dredge Camps of the Klondike: The Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation Camps of the 1940s (David Neufeld, Parks Canada, Fall 1993)

Fact Sheet, Fiche d'information (Parks Canada, undated)

Fort Herchmer, Dawson: Past and Present Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 78 (Edward F. Bush, Parks Canada, 1972)

Gold in the Klondike (A.C. Waltham, extract from Mercian Geologist, Vol 14 Part 3, December 1998)

Grubstake to Grocery Store: Supplying the Klondike, 1897-1907, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 26 (Margaret Archibald, Parks Canada, 1981)

Grubstake to Grocery Store, The Klondike Emporium, 1897-1907 (Margaret Archibald, 1972; Margaret A. Carter, rev. and ed., 1973, Parks Canada)

Heritage Character Statements / Énoncés de valeur patrimoniale, Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site

Black Residence / Maison Black (FHBRO No. 88-12, March 8, 1990, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Commanding Officer's Residence / Maison du commandant (FHBRO No. 88-12, August 1, 1990, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Harrington's Store / Magasin Harrington (FHBRO No. 88-12, March 8, 1990, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Mme. Tremblay's Store / Le magasin de Mme Tremblay (FHBRO No. 88-12, November 25, 1993, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

NWMP Married Officer's Quarters / Ancien logement des officiers mariés (N^o 125) (FHBRO No. 87-68, November 16, 1998, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Robert Service Cabin / Cabane de Robert Service (FHBRO No. 88-12, October 31, 1989, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Ruby's Place / Ruby's Place (FHBRO No. 88-12, October 31, 1989, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Historic Buildings of Dawson City / Les bâtiments historiques de Dawson City / Historische Gebäude der Dawson City (Parks Canada, undated)

Klondike: The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers (1897)

Klondike: The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers (1897)

Learning to drive the Yukon River: Western Cartography and Athapaskan Story Maps (David Neufeld, excerpt from Rachel Carson Centre Perspectives, 2011)

Nineteen Dawson buildings: (1) Dawson Daily News, (2) Telegraph Annex, (3) K.T.M. Building, (4) Bank of British North America, (5) B.Y.N. Ticket Office, (6) Robert Service Cabin, (7) Customs House, (8) Macaulay House, (9) Black Residence, (10) Commanding Officer's Residence, (11) St. Andrew's Manse, (12) St. Andrew's Church, (13) Ruby's Place, (14) Third Avenue Hotel Complex, (15) Harrington's Store, (16) Mme. Tremblay's Store, (17) N.C. Company Warehouse, (18) Bigg's Blacksmith Shop, (19) West's Boiler Shop Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office Building Report 88-12 (Joan Mattie, Parks Canada, undated)

Public Memory and Public Holidays: Discovery Day and the Establishment of a Klondike Society (David Neufeld, excerpt from Going Public: Public History Review, #8, 2000)

Public Memory and Public Holidays: The Goldpanner, Corporate Capital, Tourism and Yukon’s Discovery Day Holiday (David Neufeld, Parks Canada, May 1998)

“Running Water”: Supplying the Klondike Mines 1903-1906 (David Neufeld, Mining Inspection Division, Yukon Region, Yukon Placer Mining Industry 1998-2002, Whitehorse: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2003)

Supplemental Climate Information: Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site (Scott Parker, Parks Canada, September 19-21, 2017)

The Annex to the Commissioner's Residence, Dawson: A Structural History, 1901-1964 Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 367 (Richard G. Stuart, Parks Canada, 1979)

The Bank of British North America, Dawson, Yukon, 1898-1968, A Use and Structural History Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 324 (Richard Stuart, Parks Canada, 1979)

The Dawson City Archaeological Program: Structural Report for 1978 Operations / The North Dawson Hillside Project: A Final Report Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 384 (David Burley and Brian Ross, Parks Canada, 1979)

The Dawson Daily News: Journalism on Canada's Last Frontier Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 48 (Edward F. Bush, Parks Canada, 1971)

The Dawson Daily News: Journalism in the Klondike, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 21 (Edward F. Bush, Parks Canada, 1979)

The Klondike Official Guide (Wm. Ogilvie, Department of the Interior, 1898)

The Klondike Stampede (Tappan Adney, 1900)

The Other Little House: The Brothel as a Colonial Institution on the Canadian Prairies, 1880–93 (L.K. Bertram, extract from Journal of Social History, Vol. 56 No. 1, 2022)

Xplorers / Xplorateurs (Parks Canada)

Yukon Territory: A Community of Men Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 9 (James Weppler, Parks Canada, 1969)

Yukon Transportation: A History, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 19 (Gordon Bennett, Parks Canada, 1978)

City of Gold 21:00 (Wolf Koenig and Colin Low, National Film Board of Canada, 1957)

The Spell of the Yukon 43:00 (Rita Roy, National Film Board of Canada, 1996)

The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the books which have been published for this park. ParksCanadaHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

cover only Dawson City Mike Doogan 1988	cover only Women of the Klondike Melanie J. Mayer 1989	cover only Queen City of the North, Dawson City, Yukon: A Pictorial History Stan Cohen 1990	cover only Gold Diggers of the Klondike: Prostitution in Dawson City, Yukon, 1898-1908 Bay Ryley 1998
cover only A Brief History of Dawson City and the Klondike Doug Sack 1999	cover only Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899 Pierre Berton 2001	cover only The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899 Pierre Berton 2005	cover only Women of the Klondike Frances Backhouse 2010
cover only Women of the Klondike Claire Rudolf Murphy and Jane G. Haigh 2012	cover only Three Years in the Klondike Jeremiah Lynch 2018