Over 100 years after the stampede of the Klondike Gold Rush, this city still has its old attributes: dirt roads, original historical structures and dingy saloons featuring can-can dancing. Dawson City is also where the poet Robert Service lived for a few years. The small cabin he rented where he wrote his poems is considered a national shine and remains a tourist attraction, which of course being tourists, we visited. The sense of history here is quite palpable and enagaging.
Serendipitiously, we arrived during their Discovery Days Festival. It was near here, at Bonanza Creek, on August 17, 1896 (111 years and 2 days ago), that gold was discovered. It was this particular strike that triggered the Klondike Gold Rush.
Dawson city is also the gateway to the Dempster Highway, the only road in Canada that takes you past the Arctic Circle... stay tuned!
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