The Tr’ondëk-Klondike, positioned in Canada’s northwestern Yukon Territory, has been officially inscribed as a UNESCO Planet Heritage web page, joining Kluane Nationwide Park as the Yukon’s 2nd UNESCO Planet Heritage Website and turning out to be the Yukon’s to start with cultural Globe Heritage internet site.
The Tr’ondëk-Klondike tells section of the story of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Initial Nation’s experiences all through the rise and peak of the Klondike Gold Rush in Dawson City, concerning 1874 and 1908. Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in is a self-governing Very first Nation, with a populace of around 1300 citizens. The UNESCO Planet Heritage Internet site is a serial property comprised of eight distinctive heritage locations all over the common territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, with Dawson Metropolis at the coronary heart.
Dawson Town, alone a national historic site, resembles a city frozen in time, with elaborate dance halls, picket boardwalks and historical structures that hark back again to the late 1800s when one hundred,000 prospectors sought their fortunes during the gold rush. Nowadays, visitors to Dawson Town can immerse themselves in diverse adventures, exploring the region’s historical, cultural, and outdoor choices:
- A stop by to the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre is a must-do concerning June and September to find initial-hand the unique tradition of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. Or take a guided tour of the Hammerstone Gallery in the Dawson City Museum to comprehend the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in perspective of the gold rush period.
- Just fifty five kilometres from Dawson Metropolis lies one of the Yukon’s most placing normal phenomena and a globe-class hiking spot, Tombstone Territorial Park. With its spectacular wind-carved alps, together with the craggy granite peak of Mt. Monolith, the inside of the park attributes rainbows of putting, wind-swept tundra.
- Travellers to Dawson Metropolis can just take a front row seat to the superb northern lights with Klondike Experience in Dawson Metropolis (open up February – October). Professional tour guides entrance you with cultural and historic tales about the region as you nibble on treats and enjoy hot beverages all over the campfire in an enchanting winter season wonderland.
- To definitely practical experience the Yukon’s Initially Nations cultures, travellers need to journey on the mighty Yukon River. Fishwheel Constitution Services in Dawson City, usually takes site visitors on river excursions with skilled guidebook Tommy Taylor, a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in citizen. Tours provided incorporate Dawson Town river excursions, tailor made multi-working day river journeys, custom made solitary of multi-day snowmobile adventures, and rustic cabin rentals.
The UNESCO Globe Heritage inscription has been produced possible by the management of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Authorities and the Tr’ondëk-Klondike Entire world Heritage Website Advisory Committee, with support from the Government of Yukon and Parks Canada.
“Tr’ondëk-Klondike supplies us with an additional option to notify our tale – the tale of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and our continuous stewardship of this land considering that time immemorial,” states Hähkè Darren Taylor, Chief of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in.
“In this nomination we honour our ancestors who stewarded the land right before us, and we look to the upcoming, with the awareness that these exclusive areas will be highly regarded by generations to come.”
With this inscription, Tr’ondëk-Klondike joins the expanding listing of Entire world Heritage internet sites in Canada which features awe-inspiring places such as Nahanni Nationwide Park, Wooden Buffalo Countrywide Park, Gros Morne Nationwide Park, and the Historic District of Old Québec.
The distinctive cultural make-up of the region is the solution of the coexistence of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and settlers in excess of the very last century and a 50 percent. The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in expertise and adaptation to European settler colonialism marked the landscape with unique cultural heritage characteristics that continue to be to this day.
