The Atlin District , also known as the Atlin Country , is a historical region located in the far northwestern corner of the Canadian province of British Columbia , centered on Atlin Lake and the gold-rush capital of the region , the town of Atlin . The term "Atlin District" was also used synonymously with the official administrative area named the Atlin Mining District , established during the gold-mining heyday contemporaneous with the Klondike Gold Rush . The region also includes adjoining Teslin and Tagish Lakes and the Bennett Lake area in the narrow strip of BC separating the Alaska Panhandle from the Yukon . The Atlin District is currently part of the Stikine Region in the regional district system (although it is not a regional district). The communities of the Atlin Lakes district, as the area is casually called, are referred to in national weather reports as "the Southern Lakes", as in "Whitehorse and the Southern Lakes", although this also includes towns on the Yukon end of the lakes.
6-934: The Atlin Mining District, also known as the Atlin District, was described as: The Atlin District proper embraces the Atlin and Bennett Lake Mining Divisions; these take up the Eastern and Western halves of the District, respectively, and they extend from the Dalton Trail on the West to the watershed between Surprise and Glady Lakes on the East. The North boundary is the Sixtieth Parallel of Latitude; on
12-662: Is 396 km (246 mi) long. Originally, the Chilkat group of Tlingit controlled the trail, which they used for trade with the Athabascan people of the interior. They called the trail " grease trail " after the eulachon oil (extracted from the tiny candlefish ) that was the most important item of trade on the Chilkoot side. Each Tlingit chief had an exclusive Athabascan trading partner. Tlingits took eulachon oil and returned with furs, hides and copper nuggets gathered by
18-519: The Athabascans. Trading parties often lasted a month or more and often consisted of as many as 100 men, each of whom would carry a 45 kg (100 pound) load. Upon the arrival of Europeans, the Chilkat acted as middlemen between the traders and Athabascans and became quite wealthy. The Chilkat trade monopoly was broken in 1890 when E. J. Glave, John (Jack) Dalton and several others were hired by Leslie's Illustrated Magazine of New York to explore
24-621: The Dalton Trail. During the Klondike Gold Rush many prospectors walked the trail to Fort Selkirk, where log rafts would float men, horses and cattle to Dawson City . In 1900, the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway was completed to neighboring Skagway . This ended much of the traffic on the Dalton Trail. The west portion of the present-day Haines Highway follows much the same route as the Dalton Trail. The Dalton Trail
30-468: The interior of Alaska. While exploring the Grease Trail, they saw the possibility of a trade route there. Dalton and Glave returned in the spring of 1891 to try taking pack horses on the trail. Glave died a few years later, but Dalton remained in the area. He developed a series of trading posts and, in 1899, began charging a toll to use the Grease Trail, which prospectors called Dalton's Trail and later
36-650: The south is United States territory. This article about a location in the Interior of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dalton Trail The Dalton Trail is a trail that runs between Pyramid Harbor , west of Haines, Alaska in the United States , and Fort Selkirk , in the Yukon Territory of Canada , using the Chilkat Pass . It
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