Burwash Landing
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 Terminal of the airfield |
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| Location in Yukon | |||
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| Territory : | Yukon | ||
| Coordinates : | 61 ° 21 ′ N , 139 ° 0 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 73 (as of 2006) | ||
 View of the Kluane lake |
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Burwash Landing is a municipality in the Canadian Yukon , located on the Alaska Highway , on the south shore of Kluane Lake .
In 2006 the place had 73 inhabitants, who were distributed among 20 census families in 40 houses (2001 68). The place is the center of the Kluane First Nation (Lù'àn Män Ku Dän). 60 residents referred to themselves as aboriginals. These can be traced back to Tlingit and southern Tutchone . The place has an airfield and a museum.
history
Originally the site was a summer camp of the southern Tutchone , when a trading post was established there in 1904 by the brothers Louis and Eugene Jacquot, which supplied the ore and coal mines. Around this station some of the Indians became more settled. The brothers were attracted by the Klondike gold rush from Lorraine, France, and were also looking for the precious metal during the Kluane gold rush of 1904. Eugene initially ran the shop in a small hut, Louis was looking for metals, but in the same year they moved to Burwash Landing. They named the place after Lachlin Burwash, who had to register the finds in the region in Silver City (mining recorder). The brothers brought their wares to Silver City via Kluane Wagon Road or Christmas Bay, then in small boats across Kluane Lake . Their trading post soon included a hotel, restaurant, retail store, and a shop for hunting.
In July 1937 Robert Bates and Bradford Washburn (1910-2007, later director of the Museum of Science in Boston ) first climbed Mount Lucania in the southeast of the Yukon. But bush pilot Bob Reeve did not find the two members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club when they picked them up. The two had to start the way back more than 160 km on foot, which was extended to 156 mi (251 km ) by forced detours .
Than during the Second World War, the Alaska Highway was built, was a mission of the Oblates , Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (1944) with the help of the brothers Jacquot. The head of the mission between Whitehorse and Alaska was Father Eusebe Morisset, OMI, who ran his missions in Champagne, Snag and Aishihik until 1964. Father Henk Huijbers, OMI, came to the Yukon area from Holland in 1947. He began collecting and displaying artifacts, a collection that missionaries Fred and Margaret O'Brien continued at Burwash Landing. Jean Allinger eventually became the driving force behind the establishment of a museum. In 1966 the first museum was built in a log cabin called Burlbilly Hill cabin, which was destroyed in a forest fire in 1999.
During the construction phase of the Alaska Highway, many Kluane fell ill with previously unknown diseases, they were made sedentary, and the game was no longer accessible to them. On the one hand, this was due to the fact that among the 20,000 road workers there were many who randomly shot at game, and when the population collapsed drastically, the remaining stocks in the south were placed under protection (Kluane Game Sanctuary, today Kluane National Park ).
The Kluane children attended the Oblate School until 1951, but they now had to go to Lower Post , British Columbia . There they had to live in the local residential school and were no longer allowed to speak their mother tongue. The local groups were made to elect a tribal council and appoint a chief. This is how the so-called Burwash Band emerged from the various groups . She was forced to unite with the White River Band to form the Burwash and White River Bands .
Eugene Jacquot († 1950) and his wife Ruth ran Burwash Lodge from 1948, which benefited from the Alaska Highway. Ruth sold the house to two employees on the highway, Leland Allinger and Darrell Duensing. Behind this house lay a nameless cargo boat for a long time, which was replaced in 1931 by the Josephine , to which the Rosalie came in 1944 . In spring and autumn, the transports went from Whitehorse via Kluane Wagon Road to the 74 km long lake. The food was cooled in pits by ice that was sawn into shape in winter. Ruth Jacquot-Donnelly gave a house to the Indians of the White and Donjek Rivers , and many of them stayed in the area. Copper Joe played an important role, whose father Copper Chief came from a family from Alaska that controlled the copper trade in the region around Burwash Landing as early as 1875. Mary Copper Joe, Copper Joe's daughter, married Louis Jacquot in 1920. Old Copper Joe's House still exists today.
Around 1970 the Yukon Native Brotherhood was established , which fought for land rights. At the end of the 1970s, the Kluane Tribal Brotherhood opened its own school, but this soon had to be closed due to a lack of children. In 1990, the Kluane Tribal Council split again into the White River First Nation in Beaver Creek and Kluane First Nation in Burwash Landing groups. On October 18, 2003, the Kluane Band signed a treaty with Canada and the Territory that gave them self-government. Chief is Willy Sheldon. In 2006, 15 residents spoke a non-English language, 10 of them were immigrants. In 2009 only two Elders spoke the South Tuchone.
climate
In winter 2004/2005 temperatures of −58 ° C were measured in Burwash Landing; the lowest temperature ever recorded was recorded at -63 ° C in Snag in the same territory on February 3, 1947.
Attractions
The local Kluane Museum of Natural History has a science collection and numerous artifacts from the Kluane First Nation. Konrad Domes and his class at Yukon College originally designed the building as a Catholic church. The First Nation Congregation erected the building in 1974. Father Huijbers soon realized that the building was too big and offered the house to the museum society for use. She had previously held exhibitions in the Burlbilly Hill Cabin, a small cabin built in 1958. Jean Gwartney was the driving force behind the establishment of a museum and the founding of the historical society. The house was badly damaged by a forest fire in 1999.
The Oblate Priest Eusebe Morisset traveled to the Alaska Highway construction sites in 1943 to work as an auxiliary chaplain. He was responsible for the entire section between Whitehorse and the Alaska border. Together with the local First Nation and the Jacquot Brothers who provided the land, he built a church in 1944, with the materials from an abandoned army base at Duke Meadows. Morisset stayed until his death in 1964, visiting his parishes in Snag, Champagne and Aishihik for three days each and once a month. Classes for all ward children took place at the Burwash Landing school, which was directly attached to the Church. Morisset himself lived in a widened corridor between church and school.
The Oblate Father Henk Huijbers, resistance fighter and missionary from the Netherlands, collected numerous artifacts. Fred and Margaret O'Brien converted the classroom into an exhibition space in the early 1990s.
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Statistics Canada
- ↑ Craig Medred: Climber's exploits earned little recognition , in: Anchorage Daily News, October 7, 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Environment Canada , for example, provides climate data .
- ^ Weather Facts and Trivia, CBC
