Dawson City
Dawson City is a historical town of 2,270 people in Yukon. It invites visitors to celebrate its heritage as a late 19th-century gold rush town, with frontier buildings and boardwalks, saloons, and a vintage sternwheeler.Photo: Dawsonesque, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 1,380 residents
- Description: town in Yukon Territory, Canada
- Also known as: “City of Dawson”, “Dawson”, “Dawson City, YT”, and “Dawson, Yukon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yukon Hotel and St. Paul’s Anglican Church.
Yukon Hotel
Historic building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Yukon Hotel is a National Historic Site of Canada and part of the Dawson Historical Complex. It is a log building with a three-storey false facade on First Avenue at the corner of Church Street in Dawson City, Yukon.
St. Paul’s Anglican Church
Church
Photo: 117Avenue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Paul's Anglican Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic style Anglican church building located on the corner of Front and Church streets in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moosehide.
Moosehide
Hamlet
Moosehide is a traditional village of the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation in the Canadian territory of Yukon between about 1906 and the early 1960s. Located near a traditional salmon-fishing ground, Moosehide was first occupied about 9,000 years ago. Moosehide is situated 4 km north of Dawson City.
Dawson City
- Categories: municipal government in Canada and locality
- Location: Dawson, Yukon, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
64.0607° or 64° 3′ 38″ northLongitude
-139.4317° or 139° 25′ 54″ westPopulation
1,380Elevation
370 metres (1,214 feet)IATA airport code
YDAUnited Nations Location Code
CA YDAOpen location code
94P23H69+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 329173415OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6943713Wikidata ID
Q372324
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Dawson City” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dawson City”
- Albanian: “Dawson City”
- Arabic: “داوسون”
- Armenian: “Դոուսոն”
- Asturian: “Dawson City”
- Basque: “Dawson City”
- Belarusian: “Доўсан-Сіці”
- Bengali: “ডসন সিটি”
- Catalan: “Dawson City”
- Cebuano: “Dawson City”
- Central Kurdish: “داوسن”
- Chinese: “道森”
- Chinese: “道森市”
- Czech: “Dawson City”
- Danish: “Dawson”
- Dutch: “Dawson City”
- Egyptian Arabic: “داوسون”
- Esperanto: “Dawson”
- Finnish: “Dawson City”
- French: “Cité de Dawson”
- French: “Dawson City”
- German: “Dawson City”
- German: “Dawson”
- Greek: “Ντόσον Σίτι”
- Greek: “Ντώσον”
- Hebrew: “דוסון סיטי”
- Indonesian: “Dawson City”
- Indonesian: “Dawson”
- Irish: “Dawson City”
- Italian: “Dawson City”
- Japanese: “ドーソン・シティ”
- Japanese: “ドーソンシティ”
- Kalaallisut: “Dawson City”
- Korean: “도슨시티”
- Lithuanian: “Dosonas”
- Malay: “Dawson City”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dawson City”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dawson”
- Norwegian: “Dawson City”
- Persian: “داسون سیتی”
- Persian: “داوسون سیتی”
- Polish: “Dawson City”
- Portuguese: “Dawson City”
- Romanian: “Dawson City”
- Russian: “Даусон-Сити”
- Russian: “Доусон-сити”
- Russian: “Доусон-Сити”
- Russian: “Доусон”
- Sardinian: “Dawson City”
- Serbian: “Досон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dawson, Yukon)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dawson, Yukon”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dawson”
- Slovak: “Dawson”
- Slovenian: “Dawson City, Jukon”
- Slovenian: “Dawson City, YT”
- Slovenian: “Dawson City, Yukon”
- Slovenian: “Dawson, Yukon”
- Slovenian: “Dawson”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Dawson”
- Spanish: “Dawson City (Yukón)”
- Spanish: “Dawson City”
- Swedish: “Dawson City”
- Swedish: “Dawson”
- Turkish: “Dawson City”
- Ukrainian: “Доусон-Сіті”
- Urdu: “ڈاوسن شہر”
- Vietnamese: “Dawson, Yukon”
- Vietnamese: “Dawson”
- Wu Chinese: “道森市”
- “Altepetl Dawson”
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