Faro (Yukon)
| Faro | |||
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| Location in Yukon | |||
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| Territory : | Yukon | ||
| Coordinates : | 62 ° 14 ′ N , 133 ° 21 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 716 m | ||
| Area : | 203.57 km² | ||
| Residents : | 348 (as of 2016) | ||
| Population density : | 1.7 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Pacific Time ( UTC − 8 ) | ||
| Postal code : | Y0B 1K0 | ||
| Area code : | +1 867 | ||
Faro is a location in Canada's Yukon Territory that was home to one of the largest open pit zinc-lead mines in the world. The community is located on the Pelly River and is one of only eight official communities in the territory and legally has the status of a small town ( English Town ). The place owes its name to the card game of the same name .
The climate in Faro is cold- temperate ( Dfc according to the climate classification according to Köppen and Geiger ). The average temperature in July is 15.0 ° C and in January −20.1 ° C and the annual average is −2.0 ° C. The lowest temperature was measured on December 7, 1977 at −52.0 ° C.
history
In 1843, Robert Campbell , an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company , was the first European trader to go down the Pelly River with his interpreter Hoole and the hunters Lapie and Kitza. Even George Dawson traveled and mapped the area. The region remained relatively untouched by the Klondike gold rush , as the gold discoveries were too small.
Charles Sheldon triggered the influx of numerous hunters after 1905 with his book The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon , but they decimated the game population.
1969 to 1982, however, an ore mine dominated the area, in which suddenly several thousand men were working. Al Kulan and seven Kaska prospectors had already acquired a claim in 1953 to build an ore mine. Their leader was the Indian Joe Ladue. In 1960, Kulan and Aaro Aho founded Dynasty Explorations . In 1965, 100 men were already working in the lead-zinc mine. Soon they were working with Cypress Mining from Los Angeles and founded the Cyprus Anvil Mining Corporation . The new mine opened in 1969 and became the largest mine of its kind in Canada and the largest employer in the Yukon. It generated around a third of the territory's economic output.
The Cyprus Anvil Mining Corporation established Faro in 1968 as a starting point for the development, including a road between Carmacks and Ross River. Today it is part of Yukon Highway 4 . A forest fire destroyed the houses on June 13, 1969, but they were soon rebuilt. In 1970 the place had around 800 inhabitants, in 1981 there were almost 2,000. The ore mine operated until 1982. It delivered the ore by truck to Whitehorse, from where it was transported by train to Skagway through the White Pass and Yukon Railway .
Cyprus Anvil was taken over by Dome Petroleum . For the first time in June 1982 work was interrupted in view of falling ore prices. The closure of the mine was announced in September. Most of the workers left the city. In 1985 Faro only had 97 inhabitants.
In 1986 production was resumed by Curragh Resources and with government subsidies. Now only trucks transported the ore to Skagway, where it was loaded onto ships. But in 1993 the mine was closed again.
Anvil Range Mining Corporation attempted the area for the last time between 1995 and 1998 , but Anvil Range filed for bankruptcy. The devices and vehicles have now been sold. In 2017, it was announced that cleaning up the environmental damage caused by the mines would cost the Canadian state more than C $ 1 billion.
Faro had 400 inhabitants again around 2004.
Today Faro tries to attract tourists and refers to rare animal populations in the area, such as Dall sheep of the controversial subspecies Ovis dalli fannini , which are called Fannin's Sheep .
Demographics
The last official census , the 2016 Census , showed a population of 348 inhabitants for the settlement, after the 2011 census only showed a population of 344 inhabitants for the municipality. Compared to the last census in 2011, the population increased by 1.2% and developed significantly less than the average for the territory, there with a population increase of 5.8%. In the census period from 2006 to 2011, the number of inhabitants in the municipality only increased slightly by 0.9%, while it increased by 11.6% on average for the territory.
At the 2016 census, the average age of the residents was 43.2 years and thus above the territory's average of 39.1 years. The median age of the residents was determined to be 47.0 years. The median age of all residents of the territory was 39.5 years in 2016. For the 2011 census, a median age of 50.2 years was determined for the inhabitants of the municipality, and 39.1 years for the inhabitants of the territory.
traffic
In addition to the Robert Campbell Highway , the connection from Carmacks to Watson Lake , the airport ( IATA airport code : ZFA, ICAO code : CZFA, Transport Canada Identifier: -) , located about 3 kilometers south of the community and the Pelly River, connects the residents with it the rest of the country. Like many of the airfields in northern Canada, the airfield only has a gravel runway 1,218 meters long.
Web links
- History of Faro , archive.org, May 16, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Faro Community Profile. Census 2016. In: Statistics Canada . August 9, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 .
- ↑ 1981 to 2010 Canadian Climate Normals station data. Environment and Climate Change Canada , June 11, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Two decades after closure of Yukon's Faro mine, a cleanup plan takes shape. In: The Globe and Mail . January 3, 2017, accessed September 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Faro Community Profile. Census 2011. In: Statistics Canada . May 31, 2016, accessed September 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Canadian Airports Charts. (PDF; 76.9 MB) NAV CANADA , accessed on September 19, 2019 (English).