the Klondike
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Its people, the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, were displaced after the Klondike gold rush brought nearly 17,000 new settlers.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
“It’s like being in the Klondike now,” says Dalhousie ecologist Hugh MacIntyre, referring to the gold rush that brought prospectors to remote northwestern Canada in the 1890s.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2023
The Chetco Bar fire ravaged around 191,00 acres in the area in 2017, and one year later the Klondike fire prompted evacuations and burned more than 170,000 acres.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
About a half-hour before his lunch break one June morning, Travis Mudry was operating an excavator and digging through permafrost in the Klondike gold fields of the Yukon in Canada.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
“It was me that took all the Klondike bars.”
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
