YUKON DISTRICT OF THE CANADIAN NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES
British presence in the Yukon river region started in 1840 when the Hudson's
Bay Company established its first trading post, Fort Frances.
In 1870, like the other possessions of the Company, the region became part of
the Canadian North-West Territories. No formal administration was however set
up and for the next 25 years Yukon actually was a kind of "nomandsland" where
fur traders, gold diggers and adventurers of all kind acted freely.
It was in order to end this lawlessness - and to prevent a possible U.S. take
over (1) - that the North-West Mounted Police was sent to the region in 1894
and that a district of Yukon was organized in 1895.
(1) In this period Yukon actually was within the zone of influence of
the major US company in Alaska, the Alaska Commercial Company.
It was only in 1903 that the frontier between Yukon and Alaska was
finally fixed.
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CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Commander of the North-West Mounted Police in Yukon
1895 - 1897 Inspector Charles Constantine 1849 - 1912
Commissioner
1897 - 1898 James Morrow Walsh 1840 - 1905
CANADIAN TERRITORY OF YUKON
In 1898, following the massive "Klondike" gold-rush, the Canadian government
decided to give Yukon a more organized administration : it was detached from
the North-West Territories and made a separate territory, directly dependent
of the central government.
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CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Commissioners
1898 James Morrow Walsh s.a.
1898 - 1901 William Ogilvie 1846 - 1912
1901 - 1902 James Hamilton Ross 1856 - 1932
1902 Henry William Newlands* 1862 - 1954
1902 - 1903 NWMP Maj. Zachary Taylor Wood* 1860 - 1915
1903 - 1904 Frederick Tennyson Congdon 1858 - 1932
1904 - 1905 NWMP Maj. Zachary Taylor Wood* (2x)
1905 - 1906 William Wallace Burns McInnes 1871 - 1954
1906 J. T. Lithgow*
1907 - 1911 Alexander L. Henderson 1861 - 1940
1911 - 1912 ...
1912 - 1916 George Black 1873 - 1965
1916 - 1918 George Norris Williams*
Gold Commissioners
1918 - 1924 George Patton Mackenzie
1924 - 1925 ...
1925 - 1927 Percy Bearisto Reid 1... - 1927
1927 - 1928 ...
1928 - 1932 George Ian MacLean
Comptroller
1932 - 1936 George Allan Jeckell 1880 - 1950
Controller
1936 - 1946 George Allan Jeckell s.a.
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