Sources

The Yukon Residents database includes permanent and temporary names of Yukon residents who lived or worked in the Yukon from 1894 to 1958. The names were compiled from a limited number of archival resources (ie. Anglican Church band lists, government records, and manuscripts) plus library sources (regimental histories, 1935 town directory & telephone directories, etc.). The database currently includes only Yukon residents living in the central and southern Yukon. Residents living in the northern Yukon (such as Old Crow, Rampart House, etc.) have not been entered due to time constraints.

Archival Sources

Corporate Records

• Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Yukon, #88/128, COR 250 f. 2 Includes the census as recorded by the Anglican Church for the communities of Frances Lake, Ross River, Big Lake, Little Salmon, and Carmacks, 1924-1930
• Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Yukon, #88/128, COR 256 f. 9 Includes a list of parishioners of the Anglican Church for the years 1920-1922.
• Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of Yukon, #88/128, COR 262 f. 1 Indian Band Membership lists, 1932-1952
• Arctic Brotherhood, Whitehorse Camp no. 12, COR 207, f. 2-5
• Atlin Historical Society, 80/138, COR 005, files A-Y (RESTRICTED)
• Carnegie Library membership list, 1911-1936. Now held by Dawson Museum. Please consult with the Museum for access.
• Methodist Church (Dawson City) fonds, 81/131 COR 129, 81/131 COR. Listing of marriage licenses, births and deaths between the years 1903 to 1916
• St. Paul's Anglican Church, 81/16 (RESTRICTED) COR 330, f. 1
• White Pass and Yukon Route fonds, #82/452, COR 725-729, Sternwheeler crew lists and ship articles, [1904-1946]

Names of both permanent and temporary crews that worked on White Pass and Yukon Route sternwheelers from 1923-1946. Information provided includes names and signatures, age, nationality and/or country of origin, date and place of joining, occupation, monthly wages, employment period (i.e. season, month, round trip, contract, etc.), & date of discharge.

• Aksala, 1927, 1931, 1935-1943 (COR 725, f. 1)
• Bonanza King, 1904-1910 (COR 725, f. 2)
• Canadian, 1904-1915 (COR 725, f. 3)
• Canadian, 1912, Casca no. 2, 1913-1924 (COR 725, f. 4)
• Casa no. 3, 1944-1946 (COR 726, f. 5)
• Casa no. 3, 1937 (COR 727, f. 11)
• Dawson, 1904-1911 (COR 726, f. 6)
• Keno, 1945-1946 (COR 726, f. 7)
• Klondike, 1929-1920, 1933-1934 (COR 726, f. 8)
• Klondike, 1945-1946 (COR 726, f. 9)
• Nisutlin (Keno), [1923] (COR 729, f. 15)
• Neecheah, 1942-1945 (COR 728, f. 12)
• Thistle, 1904-1906 (COR 728, f.13)
• Tutshi, [1932-1941] (COR 728, f. 14)
• Whitehorse, 1904-1910 (COR 729, f. 16)
• Whitehorse, 1938-1946 (COR 729, f. 17)
• Yukon, 1914-1915 (COR 727, f. 10)

Government Records

• Boyle Contingent. 1914-1940. GOV 1654, f. 29600C
• Commissioner's Office, Personnel Appointments, ca. 1948, GOV 2078 f. 1
  Lists the names of civil servants and teachers that worked in Dawson, Mayo, Whitehorse, Carcross, Carmacks, Destruction Bay, Teslin and Thistle Creek.
• Dawson City Municipal Records, 1950, GOV 1360 f. 15
  List of voters, City of Dawson, first municipal election, 1950
• Death Register, 1898-1901, GOV 2076, f. 8
• Dominion List of Voters for Electoral District of Yukon, 1918, GOV 1659A f. 30811
• Federal Voters List for Dawson, 1958 GOV 1266
• Good Samaritan Hospital, 1901-1903 GOV 2077, f. 2a & 2b
• Index to applications for liquor licenses, 1898-1901 GOV 1685
• Index to applications for marriage licenses, 1901-1917 GOV 1686
• Index to applications for town lots, Dawson, 1898 GOV 1684, f. 81 (1 & 2)
• Inventory of males away on military duty, 1916 GOV 1654, f. 29600F
• Good Samaritan Hospital, 1901-1903 GOV 2077, f. 2a & 2b
• Mining Layovers for volunteers. 1914-1922. GOV 1654, f. 29600B
• Personnel Journal, October 1898-February 1942 GOV 21'42, f. 67. Includes a page for civil servant that lists date of appointment, promotions, termination date, etc.
• R.C.M.P. Yukon Records, Index to Yukon General Orders MF 29, r. 8
• Electronic resource: http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c2150
• Return of Sales, 1894-1927 GOV 2079
• Return Soldiers. 1918-1920 GOV 1654, f. 29600G
• Crown Timber and Land Agents Office Ledger
  Lists the receipt number, date of transaction, name of purchaser, description of land, amount of money received and remarks.
• Time Sales Register, 1898-1914 GOV 2080
  Lists the block and lot number, name of buyer, date of sale, date money due, amount sold for, interest, total price, date of payment, etc. for the town sites of: Dawson City, Dawson Reserve addition, Klondike City additions, Fort Selkirk, Stewart River, Fort Cudahy town site and Mill site.
• Time Sales Register, 1897-1946 GOV 2081
  Includes the names of individuals, descriptions of land, surveyor's names, group lot/price per acre and the amount paid on land for Dominion lands in Dawson.
  Series 5, Central Registry Files, Whitehorse Agent, 1898-1964 Inventory available at: http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/pdf/yrg1_series5.pdf
  Series 6, Central Registry Files, Whitehorse Mining Recorder, 1894-1951 GOV 1979 to GOV 2025 Inventory available: http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/pdf/yrg1_series6.pdf
  Series 7, Central Registry Files, 1898-1951 GOV 20028 TO gov 2048 Inventory available: http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/pdf/yrg1_series7.pdf
• Whitehorse Municipal Records, 1947, #78/27 GOV 970 f. 15
  Lists the names of Whitehorse residents and their occupations in during 1947.
• Yukon Co. for Overseas Service, 1915-1918. GOV 1654, f. 29600E

Manuscripts

• Faulkner, Victoria, #83/50 f. 54C MSS 141
  Rural preliminary list of electors for the Yukon 1938 include 1,977 electors, their occupations and their places of residence.
  The rural polling divisions included are: Dawson, Glacier Creek, Lower Bonanza, Upper Bonanza, Quartz Creek, Stewart, Thistle Creek, Bear Creek, Klondike, Gold Bottom, Upper Dominion, Lower Dominion, Sulphur, Mayo Landing, Huffman, Keno City, Galena Hill, Selkirk, Carmacks, Mt. Free Gold, Whitehorse and Carcross
• Faulkner, Victoria, MSS 141 #83/50 f. 48
  Names of Yukon Government civil servants that worked from 1898-1911
• Greenslade, Ronald L., #85/50 f. 2 MSS 170
  List includes the population of town of Whitehorse, Yukon, Oct. 24, 1933, providing individual's surnames and first names or initials.
  Organized and arranged by adults (242), children attending school (53) and children and infants not of school age (44).

Library

Books and Pamphlets

• The Alaska-Yukon Gold Book, by Sourdough Stampede Association. [Seattle, Wash.: Sourdough Stampede Association, c.1930]
  Location: 971.190 2 Alaska 1930
  Electronic resource:
  http://www.yukondigitallibrary.ca/digitalbook/alaskayukongoldbook1930/
  Roster of Sourdough names and addresses
• Alaskan Highway an Engineering Epic, by F. Rainey.
  National Geographic Magazine, vol. 83, no. 2 (February 1943): 143-168.
  Location: PAM 1943-0012C
  Magazine article about the planning, design and construction of the Alcan Highway mentions ten individuals involved by name.
• Alcan-America's Glory Road: Part III: Construction Tactics, by Harold W. Richardson. Engineering News-Record (14 January 1943): 131-138.
  Location: PAM 1943-0014
  A magazine article written about the design and construction of the Alcan Highway. At the end of the article is a list of individuals from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwest Service Command, Public Roads Administration and general contractors.
• Alcan Trail Blazers. [Pittsburgh, Penn: 648th Memorial Fund, 1992]
  Location: 940.541 273 Alca
  "A" Company, 648th Engineer Topographic Battalion consisted of 5 officers and 156 enlisted men who had the responsibility of locating, surveying and mapping the Alaska Highway along the southern sector between Fort St. John, B.C. and Lower Post on the Liard River on the British Columbia-Yukon border in October-November 1942. During November-December 1942 the Company was responsible for surveying a winter trail from Fort Nelson, B.C. to Fort Simpson, NWT.
• Baptemes, mariages, sepultures de Ste-Marie de Dawson City, Yukon 1898-1956, by M. F. Beauregard. Montreal, P.Q.: Editions Bergeron & Fils Enr'g, 1976.
  Location: Ref 929.371 91 Bapt
• Canol : the sub-Arctic pipeline and refinery project constructed by Bechtel-Price-Callahan for the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, 1942-1944. San Francisco, Calif.: Ryder and Ingram, 1945.
  Location: 971.2 Fi
  Electronic resource: http://yukondigitallibrary.ca/digitalbook/canolfinnie/
  Includes the names of the officers of the Northwest Service Command and the Bechtel-Price-Callahan personnel who worked on the Canol Project.
• Chechakho to Sourdough, by U. S. Navy, 45th Construction Battalion. San Francisco: U. S. Navy, 1944.
  Location: 940.531 USN
  Battalion muster of enlisted men and officers
• Gold and Galena: a History of the Mayo District, by Mayo Historical Society Mayo: Mayo Historical Society, 1999.
  Location: Ref 971.91 Gold 1999
  Contains personal accounts of residents, and a listing of Mayo area pioneers.
• Civil Service Lists of Canada
  Locations: PAM 1897-0107, PAM 1901-0045, PAM 1902-0031, PAM 1904-0031, PAM 1905-0037
• History of 17 Works COY RCE, April 1946-31 March 1964. [S.l.: s.n.],1964.
  Location: PAM 1964-0049
  An account of the 17 Works COY Royal Canadian Engineers, who provided and maintained accommodation for the headquarters, the maintenance teams on the road and the supporting service units of the Northwest Highway System over an eighteen year period. Chapters 2 and 5 list seventy military personnel, commanding officers and civilian employees associated with 17 Works COY during this time period.
• History of the Royal Canadian Pay Corps on the Northwest Highway System, 1946-1964, by B. W. E. Krause. [S.l. : S.n.], 1964.
  Location: PAM 1964-0048
  Includes a list of twelve people who assisted with the compiling of a history on the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps on the Northwest Highway System. It also includes the years that the contributors served with the system.
• An Index to the Journals of Reverend Robert McDonald, 1862-1913, by Johnson, Linda. Whitehorse, YT: Yukon. Dept. of Education, Heritage Branch, 1985.
  Location: Ref 016.266 3 Joh
• Long Trail : 341st Engineers on the Alaska Highway, 1942-1943. [Charlotte, N. C.: Herald Press, 1943]
  Location: 940.541 273 Long
  Includes the names of the American Corps 341st Regiment Engineers who worked on the Alaska Highway.
• Lower Post or freeze: 340th Engineer Regiment on the Alaska Military Highway, 1942-1943. [Charlotte, N. C.: Herald Press, 1944]
  Location: 940.540 3 USACE 1944
  The 340th Regiment consisted of 45 officers and 1241 enlisted men who were responsible for constructing the Lower Post road in 1942. In 1943 the Regiment constructed bridges at Liard River, Nisutlin bay and Tagish Crossing and building rest camps at Rancheria River, Swift River, Morley River, and Brook's Brook.
• Maintenance and construction on the Alaska Highway, 1946-1964. 2nd ed. [S.l.: Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers, 1964].
  Location: 358.22 CAF
  This history of the Royal Canadian Engineers' involvement with the construction and maintenance of the Alcan Highway highlights 1946 to 1964. The annexes list over 200 individuals involved including commanders, chief engineers, area superintendents, maintenance camp foremen, Royal Canadian Engineer officers and long service civilian employees.
• Me and Company "C", by Robert P. Boyd. [United States]: R. P. Boyd, 1992.
  Location: 358.22 Boyd
  Includes names of some the African American military personnel who served in the 93rd Engineers during the Alaska Highway construction time.
• Northern Signal, v. 1, no. 25, 1945.
  Location: PAM 1945-0048
  Electronic resource: http://yukondigitallibrary.ca/digitalbook/northernsignal/
  The 843rd Signal Service Battalion operated and maintained the Alaska Highway Telephone System, the first land-line communications to Alaska. With World War II at an end, many of its members expressed a desire to have a list of names and hometown addresses of past and present personnel. Northern Signal, the Battalion's newsletter, fulfilled this request in a special issue devoted to its members contact information.
• Northwest Highway System: the Royal Canadian Engineer Years, 1946-1964. [S.l: H.E.R. Colyer], 1992.
  Location: 358.22 Coly
  On April 1, 1946 the Canadian Army assumed responsibility for the portions of the Alaska Highway that lay with Canadian boundaries. This section of the Highway was renamed the "Northwest Highway System" and the responsibility for maintenance was given to the Royal Canadian Engineers for the next twenty years. Appendixes "G" to "H" list military personnel and civilians that assisted with the maintenance of the highway from 1946 to 1964.
• Thanksgiving Dinner in the Yukon, November 23, 1944.
  Location: PAM 1944-0050
  A menu with the guest's signatures.
• Yukon Infantry Company : nominal roll of officers, non-commissioned officers and men.
  Location: PAM 1917-0015

Town Directories & Telephone Books

• British Columbia and Yukon Directory, 1935, p. 812-816 Location: Microfilm MF #90, r. 1 Lists the names of residents of Dawson, Whitehorse, Bear Creek, Bonanza, Big Salmon, Carcross, Granville, Keno Hill, Kluane, Glacier Creek, Huffman, Mayo, etc. for the year 1935.
  Electronic resource: http://www.vpl.ca/bccd/index.php
• British Columbia and Yukon Directory, 1947
  Location: Microfilm MF #92, r. 1 & 2
  Electronic resource: http://www.vpl.ca/bccd/index.php
• Henderson's British Columbia Gazetteer and Directory, 1900/1901, 1910.
  Location: Microfilm MF#93-reel 1 1900/1901
  Electronic resource: http://www.vpl.ca/bccd/index.php
• Henderson's British Columbia Gazetteer and Directory, 1910.
  Location: Microfilm MF #93, r. 7
  All of the town/city directories listed above now have e-publications at: http://www.vpl.ca/bccd/index.php
• Polk's Alaska-Yukon Gazetteer and Business Directory 1911/1912
  Location: YA Reference Room Polk's 1911/1912
• Polk's Alaska-Yukon Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1923-1924
  Location: YA Reference Room Polk's 1923/1924
  Electronic resource: http://www.yukondigitallibrary.ca/digitalbook/polksgazetteer192324/
• Whitehorse Telephone Directory, January 1, 1946.
  Location: PAM 1946-0043
  Thirty-three Whitehorse residents are listed.
• Whitehorse Telephone Directory, January 1, 1948.
  Location: PAM 1948-0058
  Sixty-two Whitehorse residents are listed.
• Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Telephone Directory, 1950, 1951, 1952
  Location: 910.25 Wh
  Electronic resource: http://www.yukondigitallibrary.ca/Browse.aspx?action=browse&type=43

Newspapers and Periodicals

• Northern Lights, 1921-1955
  Location: Microfilm P-15, r. #1 & 2
• Vancouver Yukoners' Association newsletter, May 1993 to February 2002
  Location: Newspapers
  Index to the obituaries of Yukoners listed in the newsletter from May 1993 to February 2002.
• Whitehorse Star, January-March 1948.
  Location: Newspaper
• Whitehorse Star, March 4, 1949
  Location: Microfilm N-5, r. #22