Yukon, Canada Genealogy

Guide to Yukon ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Yukon Information

 * Yukon is the smallest and most western of Canada's three federal territories. Whitehorse is the capital and Yukon's only city.

History

 * Long before the arrival of Europeans, central and southern Yukon was populated by First Nations people.
 * Sites of archeological significance in Yukon hold some of the earliest evidence of the presence of human habitation in North America. The sites safeguard the history of the first people and the earliest First Nations of the Yukon.
 * Coastal and inland First Nations had extensive trading networks.
 * European incursions into the area began early in the 19th century with the fur trade, followed by missionaries.
 * By the 1870s and 1880s, gold miners began to arrive. This drove a population increase that justified the establishment of a police force, just in time for the start of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897.
 * The increased population coming with the gold rush led to the separation of the Yukon district from the Northwest Territories and the formation of the separate Yukon Territory in 1898.
 * Yukon, also called Yukon Territory and referred to by some as the Yukon is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.
 * It also is the least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 35,874 people as of the 2016 Census.
 * Whitehorse, the territorial capital and Yukon's only city.

FamilySearch Resources
Below are FamilySearch resources that can assist you in researching your family.
 * Facebook Communities - Facebook groups discussing genealogy research
 * Learning Center - Online genealogy courses
 * Historical Records - databases and record images on FamilySearch
 * FamilySearch Center locator map

Additional Resources

 * How to Recognize your Canadian Ancestor
 * Name Variations in Canadian Indexes and Records