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Dawson City Museum Collection
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Regina RCMP Museum collection

  • CA dcm dcm-101
  • Collection
  • Copied 1984 (originally created [ca. 1898-1911])

This collection consists of photographs from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Museum, Regina and includes images relating to the RCMP in Dawson City, Yukon: images of the Lost Patrol of 1911, the Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP) Dawson City detachment and barracks and Superintendents Constantine and Steele.

RCMP Museum, Regina, Saskatchewan

British Columbia Archives collection

  • CA dcm dcm-102
  • Collection
  • Copied 1984 (originally created [ca. 1898-1919])

This collection consists of photographs from the British Columbia Archives consisting of images with subject matter ranging from Klondike City (Lousetown), to the interior of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall (AB Hall) in Dawson City, Yukon and small mining operations to dredging. Also included are two images relating to Yukon First Nations.

British Columbia Archives

National Archives of Canada collection

  • CA dcm dcm-103
  • Collection
  • Copied 1984 (originally created 1898-1945)

This collection consists of photographs of scenes of the Gold Rush trails to the Klondike, early Dawson City and Bonanza in the Yukon, mining operations and the Gold Fields, transportation including sternwheelers, trains, pack trains and airplanes, law enforcement, prostitution, street scenes in Dawson City, public buildings and business, social groups such as the Yukon Order of Pioneers (YOOP) and Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE), and floods. These photographs were taken primarily by professional photographers and include images by Adams & Co., Adams & Larkin, E. A. Hegg, E. O. Ellingsen, Hegg & Co., J. Doody, Kinsey & Kinsey and Larss & Duclos. Unless otherwise stated the prints are 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 inches). Sections of this collection came to the Dawson City Museum at various times. The major portion was acquired in 1962.

National Archives of Canada

Canadian Museum of Civilization collection

  • CA dcm dcm-104
  • Collection
  • Copied in 1984 (originally created 1898-1925)

This collection consists of photographs from the collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Images include trails to the Klondike during the Gold Rush, townscapes, streetscapes, businesses in locations such as Lindemann Lake, Lake Bennett, Whitehorse, Dawson City, Yukon as well as stage presentations by various drama clubs.

Canadian Museum of Civilization

Yukon Archives collection

  • CA dcm dcm-105
  • Collection
  • Copied 1984 (originally created [ca. 1897-1950])

This collection consists of photographs from the Yukon Archives and contains photographs of the trails to the Klondike, early Dawson City, Yukon, law enforcement, entertainment, First Nations peoples and streetscapes and businesses in localities such as Stone House, Dalton Trail, Lake Bennett, Carmacks, Hootalinqua, Miles Canyon, Whitehorse Rapids, Five Finger Rapids and Tagish Post.

Yukon Archives

Canadian Travel Bureau collection

  • CA dcm dcm-107
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1960]

This collection contains a series of promotional photographs taken ca. 1960 near Miles Canyon, Whitehorse and Dawson City in Yukon. The images show sternwheelers, steam locomotives, old stage coach, MacBride Museum and Miles Canyon suspension bridge.

Canadian Travel Bureau

George Oswald Shaw collection

  • CA dcm dcm-108
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1962]

This collection contains prints from original glass plate negatives from ca. 1904-1915 of Dawson City, Yukon scenes including Kings Solomon's Dome and Natch's farm, sports, and studio portraits including Joe Gatt, the Ballentine family and other unidentified people.

Shaw, George Oswald

Dawson City Museum Early Klondike collection

  • CA dcm dcm-109
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1898-1946]

These photographs were collected by the Dawson City Museum and arranged by subject. The images were taken by various professional photographers including Larss & Duclos, Goetzman, Adams & Co., E. A. Hegg, Duclos, and E. O. Ellingsen. Photographs include images of routes to the Klondike including the Chilkoot and Skagway; Dawson City, Yukon events including 4th of July, May 24th (Victoria Day), dog teams, the first car; streetscapes including Avery Groceries, Dawson Daily News, Jimmy's Place, Fairview Hotel, etc.; Transportation including Klondike Mines Railway (KMR) and sternwheelers, Gold Fields, North West Mounted Police (NWMP) and First Nations.

Dawson City Museum

Dawson City Museum sports and amusements collection

  • CA dcm dcm-110
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1898-1946]

These photographs were collected by the Dawson City Museum, Yukon and arranged by subject. The images were taken by amateur and professional photographers including H.T. Misumi, E.O. Ellingsen, Adams & Duclos. They relate to sports and amusements in Dawson City. Activities represented include stage presentations, hunting, baseball, volleyball, Dawson Amateur Athletic Association, curling and hockey. Two shots of caribou herds crossing rivers and the first radio station broadcast by volunteers from the Old Territorial Administration Building (OTAB) in Dawson City in the late 1950s are included. There are 28 images and 2 copies.

Dawson City Museum

Dawson City Museum transportation collection

  • CA dcm dcm-111
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1898-1946]

This collection contains photographs collected by the Dawson City Museum, Yukon from various and unknown sources and arranged by the subject of transportation. Scenes represented include early aircraft (The Northern Light), and glider, Yukon River sternwheelers (Nasutlin, Lightning, Casca, Dawson, Clifford Sifton, Victorian), and barges, small dog sleds (including passengers Coutts, Kinsey), pack trains (Kennedy), horse teams (Rouse), bridges and floating of fire wood down Yukon River.

Dawson City Museum

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