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Carcross

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Carcross

Settlement in southwestern Yukon Territory, Canada, on the Klondike Highway at the northern end of Bennett Lake, 65 km/40 mi south-southeast of Whitehorse; population (1991) 183. Carcross has been a mining community since the Klondike gold rush (1897-1900s).

The name is an abbreviation of ‘caribou crossing’. During the Klondike gold rush the White Pass and Yukon Railway made this a stop, and has supplied subsequent mining operations in the area.


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He was an elementary school teacher in Toronto, then in 1966, he and Jan moved to the Yukon where he taught and she was a nurse at the Carcross Indian Residential School.
6 miles above the Earth near the Yukon community of Carcross, about 100 miles north of Juneau, Alaska.
is a private company headquartered in Carcross, Yukon in Canada that provides equipment and services to oil and gas companies, mining companies and isolated communities in the far northern regions of Canada (the Yukon and Northwest Territory) and Alaska.
 
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