This completely revised edition of Land of the Midnight Sun, first published in 1988, is a comprehensive overview of Yukon history. This book places the Klondike Gold Rush within the broader sweep of the past, giving particular emphasis to the role of First Nations people and Aboriginal-white relations and to the lengthy struggle of Yukoners to find their place in the Canadian confederation. This broader story incorporates the mammoth dredges that scoured the Klondike creeks, the impressive silver mines in the Elsa-Keno Hill area, the sinking of the Princess Sophia, the Yukon's remarkable contributions to the war effort in World War I, and the sweeping transformations associated with the American "occupation" during World War II.
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Ken S. Coates is provost and dean of academics at Sea to Sky University in Squamish, British Columbia, and an adjunct professor of political studies at the University of Saskatchewan. William R. Morrison is professor of history at the University of Northern British Columbia. In addition to independent publications, they have published ten books together, including Strange Things Done: A History of Murder in the Yukon.
The human history of the Arctic began thousands of years ago, yet little is remembered about the region other than its gold rush. In this sweeping revision of the 1988 text, Professors Coates and Morrison have grounded both the fabulous and mundane aspects of the vast region's history in a broader historical context. Archaeological evidence of prehistoric humans in the Yukon is limited, and thus the book's first chapter is brief. The authors commence their history in earnest with the late-eighteenth century arrival of European explorers and fur traders. Gold was discovered in 1886, but the event that brought the Yukon fame was the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896-1900. The authors document the harrowing conditions the miners faced, but also the fact that the Klondike rush was not as lawless as the rushes in California or Alaska because of the presence of the Mounted Police. Also covered are the impact of missionaries, the misguided efforts to force First Nations children into Christian boarding schools, the racism that permeated white Yukon society until recently and the construction of the Alaska Highway during World War II. However, the book's emphasis, however, is on the region's post-gold rush political and economic climate, and U.S. readers may not know enough Canadian political history to comprehend the implications of, for example, the failed Meech Lake constitutional accords. However, the book is a thorough history of the Yukon's past 200 years and a worthy addition to the Arctic bookshelf.
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