On May 23, 1905, a small hearthplace withinside the barber keep of the Windsor Hotel were given out of manipulate whilst the hearthplace engine ran out of water, spreading at some stage in the metropolis and causing $300,000 in damage, aleven though there had been no deaths.
The White Pass and Yukon Route narrow-gauge railway linking Skagway to Whitehorse had began production in May 1898, through May 1899 production had arrived on the south quit of Bennett Lake. It turned into most effective in June–July 1900 that production completed the tough Bennett Lake segment itself, finishing the whole route. Mac ski trails, Riverdale, Valleyview, Hillcrest, Granger, Porter Creek, and Mountainview) and one,. [7]
As of the 2021 Canadian census, the populace turned into 28,201[8] inside metropolis barriers and 31,913[9] withinside the census agglomeration.
In 1950 the metropolis turned into integrated, and through 1951 the populace had doubled from its 1941 numbers. [citation needed]
The discovery of gold withinside the Klondike in August 1896, through Skookum Jim, Tagish Charlie, and George Washington Carmack, spark off a chief extrade withinside the historic styles of the region. Whitehorse is presently the sixty fourth biggest metropolis in Canada through region. The Canol pipeline turned into additionally built to deliver oil to the north with a refinery in Whitehorse. The rapids which had been the namesake of the metropolis have disappeared beneathneath Miles Canyon and Schwatka Lake, fashioned through the development of a hydroelectricity dam in 1958.
