A territory of northwest Canada east of Alaska. It became a territory in 1898 at the height of the Klondike gold rush. Whitehorse is the capital and the largest city.
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Territory in northern Canada which has Whitehorse as its capital.
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Yukon-territory Sentence Examples
It flows first to the north, then to the north-west, passing out of the Yukon territory into Alaska, and then south-west, ending in Bering Sea, the northward projection of the Pacific, 2000 m.
wide covers towards the south almost all of British Columbia and a strip of Alberta east of the watershed, and towards the north forms the whole of the Yukon Territory.
in the interior of the Yukon Territory.
In 1898, owing to the influx of miners, the Yukon territory was constituted and granted a limited measure of self-government.