Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 10

Commissioners of the Yukon, 1897-1918

by Edward F. Bush

Abstract

After a brief description of the opening of the Yukon Territory and the institution of territorial government, the tenures in office and characters of each of the commissioners or chief executives are traced in turn against the background of the politics and social life of the period. The abolition of the office of commissioner and re-organization of the territorial government in March 1918 is followed by a sketch of post-1918 Yukon history up to the time of the transferral of the territorial capital from Dawson to Whitehorse in 1954. An appendix lists the names of the commissioners and succeeding chief executives from 1897 to 1966.