Carmacks, Yukon
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Carmacks is a village in Yukon, Canada, on the Yukon River along the Klondike Highway, and at the west end of the Robert Campbell Highway from Watson Lake. The population is 588, an increase from the
Carmacks as seen from the Yukon River bridge with the river in the foreground.
The Yukon River bridge at Carmacks
George Carmack
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George Washington Carmack was an American prospector in the Yukon. He was originally credited with registering Discovery Claim, the discovery of gold that set off the Klondike Gold Rush on August 16,
Carmacks, Yukon
…Census of 2016. It is the home of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, a Northern Tutchone-speaking people. The name of the community comes from George Washington Carmack, who found coal near Tantalus Butte (locally called Coal Mine Hill) in the early 1890s. He built a trading post near the present site of Carmacks and…
Carmack c. 1900
George W Carmack, one of the discoverers of gold in the Klondike