Talk:Dawson City

Name of Dawson City

Dawson City's official name is, oddly enough, the "Town of the City of Dawson", as it is incorporated as a town. That's what it says on the sign when you enter the town. See [1] for the history, [2] for legislation referring to the town, and a CBC news story [3] which all use "the Town of the City of Dawson"

I think it originally was incorporated as a city and got downgraded; other instances of this happened to various boomtowns in BC (those that weren't company towns, that is, which didn't have governments). A famous example that didn't is Greenwood, near Rock Creek, which retains its city status despite having a population less than 500-1000 today.Skookum1 07:18, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

To those that may have seen me edit the town's official legal name, while the above may have been the case at one point, the official legal name has been "City of Dawson" since at least the 2001 Municipal Act coming into force. See section 15(2)(b) of the Municipal Act (page 24), which is now also reflected on the town's website, its council agendas and minutes, and its municipal seal. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 06:53, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

"List of Notable Dawsonites" section

OK, other than the famous names like Diamond Tooth Gertie and Skookum Jim and Robert Service so on, but there are others who either set up shop in the place, and those raised there, that are of importance. The big city pages all have "famous people from XXXX" - why not Dawson's?Skookum1 07:18, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

How about a mention of Joe and Annie Henry? --Weetoddid (talk) 01:20, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

First Nations section needed

....Just because I've been working on Indigenous Peoples of North America WikiProject and happened to have just compiled a list of Yukon, Denendeh/NWT and Nunavut band/national governments. There should be at least some FN content on the main Dawson page, you'd think (equal time for the crazy prospector/miner element, too, though...)Skookum1 07:21, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Missing?

The casino and the music festival should probably be mentioned, no? -- TheMightyQuill 07:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Rename page

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move.

• Rename: Dawson City, Yukon → Dawson City

This seems to be the primary usage of this term, and other subjects using this title are not likely to have articles written about them on Wikipedia; if so, the city should stil retain the undisambiguated title. (There is a 1970s/80s band from Toronto with that name, and an old naval vessel that is now a shipwreck.) Most other subjects relevant to this title would contain it as part of a larger title, such as Dawson City International Short Film Festival. The undisambiguated title currently redirects to the city. Mindmatrix 18:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

• Support as nominator. Mindmatrix 19:01, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support per CANSTYLE and nominators reasons. -Royalguard11(T·R!) 21:05, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support per CANSTYLE. DigitalC (talk) 03:22, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support as per the naming convention and primary usage. Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Bus service

Is there scheduled bus service between Dawson City and Whitehorse? 209.196.230.72 (talk) 15:28, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Three Great Fires

There were three, I remember reading in Berton's Klondike. 1898, 1901 and 1903 stick in my brain but I don't have a citation or source handy. I want to add them to the List of fires page but there's nothing here about them, and I'm not sure of the dates;p and there certainly should be accounts of each of them here; the nightmarish quality of the first one, with water frozen in the hoses and no way to put it out, and no food left in town (having all been burned), is scary to contemplate....Skookum1 (talk) 07:13, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Try this. PKT(alk) 13:14, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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Visible minority section makes no sense

The census shows there are 10 black people in the city, no other minorities, yet... 15 minorities in total. Alex of Canada (talk) 20:04, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

That was what was in the Statistics Canada source. That question would have best been asked to them. It was outdated data anyways and the section is now updated to the 2016 data. Air.light (talk) 19:04, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Arts and Culture

• Klondike Institute of Art and Culture.

• Yukon Riverside Arts Festival.

• Dawson City Music Festival.

• Dawson City International Short Film Festival.

Yanick jr (talk) 18:58, 13 March 2023 (UTC)