I lived in Alaska and have been to Dawson City several times and I never heard of a Dawson Creek there. Also I never heard that Bonanza Creek was called Rabbit Creek. There is however a Rabbit Creek south of Fort St. John in British Columbia. Great photographs.
The late Bill Barlee knew his topic! The person posting this video to RUclips is the one who made the naming error. Dawson Creek is over 1200 miles away from Dawson City, but the original Klondike discovery was indeed made on the Rabbit Creek (later renamed to Bonanza Creek) in Yukon Territory near Dawson City. You can confirm that by quick Google search of "Discovery Claim National Historic Site, Rabbit Creek - Parks Canada"
$15.50 an ounce, not $550.00, at time of Klondike rush. More than a half-century later, the American price was government-fixed at $35 an ounce when I was a teenager in the 1960s; and, I could not legally repatriate US gold coins that I found for sale in German shops in1964 thanks to FDR's socialist acts three decades earlier! US gold ask this afternoon (12 May 2024) is $2361.20!
I'll take Bill Barlee's word (and other historical sources) over your assertion! Claims were registered at Forty Mile, a town in Yukon Territory, not Alaska, established in 1886.
Interesting discussion of the Klondike Gold Rush. I think the episode is mislabeled, this took place in Dawson City (Yukon), not Dawson Creek (BC)
Indeed!
I lived in Alaska and have been to Dawson City several times and I never heard of a Dawson Creek there. Also I never heard that Bonanza Creek was called Rabbit Creek. There is however a Rabbit Creek south of Fort St. John in British Columbia. Great photographs.
The late Bill Barlee knew his topic! The person posting this video to RUclips is the one who made the naming error. Dawson Creek is over 1200 miles away from Dawson City, but the original Klondike discovery was indeed made on the Rabbit Creek (later renamed to Bonanza Creek) in Yukon Territory near Dawson City. You can confirm that by quick Google search of "Discovery Claim National Historic Site, Rabbit Creek - Parks Canada"
$550 an ounce, now $1800 and oz
2700$ cdn
$15.50 an ounce, not $550.00, at time of Klondike rush. More than a half-century later, the American price was government-fixed at $35 an ounce when I was a teenager in the 1960s; and, I could not legally repatriate US gold coins that I found for sale in German shops in1964 thanks to FDR's socialist acts three decades earlier!
US gold ask this afternoon (12 May 2024) is $2361.20!
All those discovery claims were registered in the territory of Alaska.
I'll take Bill Barlee's word (and other historical sources) over your assertion! Claims were registered at Forty Mile, a town in Yukon Territory, not Alaska, established in 1886.
Dawson City. Not Dawson Creek. It's not that hard. Seriously.
Dawson Creek is where Hwy 97 (Alaska Highway) starts. Dawson City is much further north. 😳 seriously.
@@MW-nOttawa you are right there is a Dawson Creek