Episodes

Getting to the Klondike and finding a claim was only the start of your mining adventure. You then had to learn how to get the gold out of...

Klondike Kate was the most famous of the women who graced the stages of Dawson's dance halls. Her fascinating life story is layers of...

We are honoured to share our interview with Bill Webber, a Kwanlin Dün elder and well-known community leader involved in organizations...

It's October 1897 and you've finally made it to Dawson City! The city is one year old, and halfway on its meteoric rise from moose...

This episode steps back to the 1700s to look at the experience of Indigenous peoples as the first Europeans -- the Russians -- arrived in...

You've made it over the Chilkoot and built your home-made boat. Now winter is coming and it's a race against time to get to Dawson before...

Pascale and Keith interview Alice Cyr, former Skagway interpretive guide for the National Parks Service and Alaskan cruise ship lecturer,...

Soapy Smith is one of the gold rush's most notorious names, even though he never made it to the Klondike. He found his gold in the...

With our stampeder Tappan Adney safely at Lindeman building his boat for the final push to the Klondike, we'll take a break from his...

The final push over the summit, hefting a year's worth of supplies over snow and boulders on a steep slope sometimes 35 degrees or more....

Follow the muddy, exhausted footsteps of a Stampeder along the Chilkoot Trail, and find out why the route is still notorious 120 years...

"Whichever way you go, you will wish you had gone the other." Stampeders arriving in Skagway and Dyea had a big choice to make: the...

So you've decided to go get some Klondike gold. First you have to find out where the Klondike is, how to get there, and what you'll need...

Steamers from Alaska arrive in San Francisco and Seattle a day apart, full of Klondike miners with so much gold they have to stagger to...

Someone finally finds the 'Big One' and sparks a stampede out of Forty Mile to Bonanza Creek. The wildest gold rush in history is on,...

The day Rabbit Creek became Bonanza Creek, and mayhem ensued. Wait till word reaches Outside... Yukon prospectors have got into a rhythm,...

The early days. The Chilkats kick the Hudson's Bay Company out of the Yukon, but prospectors begin to filter in looking for gold. The...

Welcome to the History of the Klondike Gold Rush podcast, a biweekly series telling the dramatic story of the men and women who lived the...