I’ll bet Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Minister of Justice of Canada in 1892, could never have imagined that a small, personal project could one day become the code upon which justice is determined in Canada. After its confederation in 1867, Sir John A. Macdonald (photo below), then Prime Minister of Canada, was determined not…
When most people think of the Yukon Territory, they think of a barren land of ice and snow which few people want to live in. However, there was a time in history, especially between 1896-1899, when people flocked to the Yukon in the thousands from around North America. This event is known as the Klondike…
Who would like to move to Yukon? Surprisingly, from 1896 to 1899, more than 100,000 people migrated to Yukon, which at the time was considered as an unprecedented amount of immigration. Why did all these people all of a sudden move to the Yukon Territory, I hear you ask? We know they have great potatoes,…