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| Title | Rapids on One Mile River between Bennett Lake and Lindeman Lake, British Columbia, ca. 1898 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1898 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Entering Lake Bennett from Lake Linderman
Filed in Yukon--Bodies of Water--Lake Bennett |
| Contextual Notes | Klondike stampeders set up camp along the shores of Lake Lindeman and Lake Bennett during the winter of 1897-1898. These men, women and children had managed to drag and carry tons of provisions over the harsh trails down to the lakes, which formed the headwaters of the Yukon River. The crowd had to wait for the river ice to break before they could sail down the Yukon into Dawson. Some stampeders stayed at Lake Lindeman, the end of the Chilkoot Pass; many more kept moving down the trail and set up camp at Lake Bennett, which was also the terminus of the White Pass trail. Many who stayed at Lake Lindeman regretted their decision in the spring. Ice and snow hid the wild rapids between Lake Lindeman and Lake Bennett. What would have been a tedious, but safe journey in the winter was a short but dangerous navigation through churning rapids in the spring. [Source: National Postal Museum web site, http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/bennett.html] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Rapids--British Columbia; Rivers--British Columbia; Lakes & ponds--British Columbia; Boats--British Columbia |
| Subjects (LCSH) | One Mile River (B.C.) |
| Location Depicted | Canada--British Columbia--One Mile River |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC0841
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| Negative Number | UW563 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Canada Photograph Collection. PH Coll 393 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004. |
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