| Very few episodes in North American history have captured the imagination as has the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898. The towns of Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada and Skagway, Alaska, United States developed in a single year to accommodate the influx of prospectors on their way to the Klondike gold fields. Today, both towns remain internationally significant and commemorated for their association with the full extent and impact of the Klondike Gold Rush.;An examination of the Canadian and American cultural resource management statutory frameworks and policies as they apply to Dawson City and Skagway reveals that cultural resources administered by Canada's federal government would benefit by emulating several of the United States' cultural resource orientated legislative acts. America's federal legislation is clearly more effective than Canada's at managing cultural resources on federal land and when dealing with federal undertakings or with projects receiving federal funds. |
