Stewart Crossing
| Stewart Crossing | |||
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 The grocery store at the gas station |
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| Location in Yukon | |||
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 Canada
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| Territory : | Yukon | ||
| Coordinates : | 63 ° 23 ′ N , 136 ° 41 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 35 (as of 2006) | ||
Stewart Crossing is a settlement in the Yukon, Canada .
It is on the Klondike Highway , which connects Whitehorse and Dawson , at the junction of the Silver Trail , which leads to Mayo . Until the current bridge was built, a ferry crossed the Stewart River until the late 1950s .
In 2006 Stewart Crossing had 35 residents.
history
In 1886 three prospectors, among them Arthur Harper , founded a trading post on the site of the present-day location, as they realized that more money could be made by supplying the prospectors than looking for gold yourself. They built a so-called roadhouse and earned money from shipping on the Stewart. Even Jack London stayed here during the Klondike Gold Rush on.
1950 was a ferry that served the road from Whitehorse to Mayo over the Stewart River. It belonged to Jack McDiarmid and the Van Bibbers. Jack and Mary McDiarmid bought derelict sawmills and other structural remains, brought them to the ferry station, and Mary McDiarmid ran a lunch bar for travelers. After the bridge over the river had been built in 1960, the couple ran a repair shop and a gas station, and shipping was no longer important. Instead, the road to Dawson took over the supply functions, northwest of Stewart Crossing, the Moose Creek Lodge was built in 1968. The Trapper's Cabin there is probably one of the smallest museums in the Yukon. When the Canadian government cut funding for the CBC , the Yukon government stepped in and set up 16 TV stations to broadcast the CBC program. Stewart Crossing received an FM radio station.
In 1981 there was a devastating forest fire at Stewart Crossing, the traces of which are still visible today.
Since 2007, Yukon Energy has been building a power line from Carmacks to Stewart Crossing, which Pelly Crossing has already reached. A branch to the Minto mine has been in operation since November 2008, the continuation to Stewart Crossing was still under construction at the end of 2010. In spring 2011, the Ferry Hill Wind Project began with the construction of a so-called wind-monitoring tower .
See also
supporting documents
- ^ Statistics Canada
- ↑ Lynn and Ed Readicker-Henderson: The Alaska Highway , Edison, New Jersey 2009, p. 259.
- ^ Valerie Alia: Un / Covering the North. News, Media and Aboriginal People , UBC Press 1999, p. 138.