Carmacks, Yukon

Carmacks is a village in the Yukon on the Yukon River along the Klondike Highway, and at the west end of the Robert Campbell Highway from Watson Lake. Population 426 (Yukon Bureau of Statistics, June 2007). Home of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, a Northern Tutchone language people. Carmacks is the site of one of the four bridges over the Yukon River.

It was named after George Carmack, one of the discoverers of gold in the Klondike, who had tried mining coal in the area in the early 1890s. The area around Carmacks has large mineral resources, including coal, copper, and gold. Various mining activities are taking place on mineral sites around Carmacks. There is a small Zinc-Copper mine in production near Carmacks operated by Western Silver and a gold property north west of Carmacks currently in the exploration stage operated by Northern Freegold Resources based out of Whitehorse.

Demographics

Carmacks is the only community in the Yukon which has the status of designated place in Canadian censuses.Canada_CP_2006|pop=425|popDelta=-1.4%
landArea=36.9|popDensity=11.6|medianAge=|medianAgeM=|medianAgeF=
privateDwell=173|medianHHIncome=37,632

External links

* [http://www.yukonalaska.com/communities/carmackshist.html History of Carmacks]
* [http://www.yukoncommunities.yk.ca/communities/carmacks/ Community Profile]
* [http://www.lscfn.ca Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation]
* [http://www.carmacks.ca Village of Carmacks Web Page]