(Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada PA-005389, Panning gold during the Klondike Gold Rush) Gold had been discovered in the Yukon Territory, in a tributary of the Klondike River.

This video shows how Yellowknife, Canada, became a hotspot for those looking for gold after the Second World War.

A few years earlier, the Klondike Gold Rush had symbolically ushered in an age of prosperity for Canada. Gold was discovered in the Klondike River in the Yukon in the summer of 1896. The following ...

The last great gold rush took place in the Klondike in 1897. The 100 thousand Americans who traveled there regenerated the economy of the Pacific Northwest and secured the financial future of ...