Yukon Travel Guide
Although much of Canada still has the flavour of the "last
frontier", it's only when you embark on the mainland push north to the Yukon that you
know for certain you're leaving the mainstream of North American life behind. In the
popular imagination, the north figures as a perpetually frozen wasteland blasted by
ferocious gloomy winters, inhabited - if at all - by hardened characters beyond the reach
of civilization. In truth, it's a region where months of summer sunshine offer almost
limitless opportunities for outdoor activities and an incredible profusion of flora and
fauna; a country within a country, the character of whose settlements has often been
forged by the mingling of white settlers and aboriginal peoples . The indigenous
hunters of the north are as varied as in the south, but two groups predominate: the Dene
, people of the northern forests who traditionally occupied the Mackenzie River region
from the Albertan border to the river's delta at the Beaufort Sea; and the Arctic Inuit
(literally "the people"), once known as the Eskimos or "fish eaters",
a Dene term picked up by early European settlers and now discouraged.
The north is as much a state...more>
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