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Manfred Hoefs
Issue: 2017-12-20, PHOTO: Hoefs’ family collection
Human migrations changed hunting
Gold-mining in the Yukon River watershed took place well before the Klondike discovery. It started in the Forty-Mile River in 1886 with 600 miners participating, and Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka (1892) described 100 to 200 miners working the... more
Issue: 2017-11-01, PHOTO: Hoefs family collection
Hunting in the Yukon
Yukon’s history – its time scale and events – is different from any other Canadian jurisdiction. The northern portion of the Territory was part of Beringia, an ice-free area that extended from the Yukon and Alaska across the Bering Land-bridge... more