Dawson City, by Max

Dawson City was established in 1896 (just in time) before the Klondike gold rush happened a year later. After the gold rush nobody left so it didn't become a ghost town, like most other gold rush towns. Today Dawson City much of a city but when it got its name, it was. It is an old and very quaint town and there are many fun places to see that where build over a hundred years ago.
 

Inside the Saloon Bar - technically I wasn't supposed to be there!

         Discovered in 1882, Dawson wasn't actually settled until 1896. The gold rush increased the population from 50 to 40,000, in just over two years. The only way to get to Dawson City was by boat so that meant there were around 250 boats on the Yukon river. After the gold rush ended it was thought the town would become a ghost town, but surprisingly people stayed, so the government decided to drain the city and add board walks.
 

Typical Dawson hotel

         It is never warm in Dawson City. In the winter months most people leave because it’s so cold. Rather the tourists leave and the residents stay and they have lots fun. It might be -50 c but you can ski, dog sled and snow board. The Yukon Quest (the annual famous dog sledding competition) even passes through Dawson City
          During the gold rush years, most of the 40,000 people who came to Dawson were miners. Obviously needed food, new clothes and tools. Most importantly they needed company, because they would be working hard all day in the mine. That's when the saloon opened. There were few women in town, but the saloon had some women. The men would come in with there pouches of gold and blow all of it at the saloon because they were afraid there mine might fall on them.
 

Aerial view of Dawson City

         All the miners only had gold back then and people would rip you off. It was clear that they needed paper money. That's when the bank was brought in. People would trade their gold for paper money at the bank. The Royal Canadian Mountain Police protected  Dawson so well that bank wasn't even thought about being robbed.
 
         Lots of miners left their wives and children back home, for gold. Sad as that must have been there was very little way to communicate, but the post office. The post office only came one or two times a year because in winter the water would freeze.

Inside the post office