End of Trail / Fin de la piste

During 1897–98, more than 20,000 stampeders hiked the Chilkoot and White Pass routes, most spending 3 to 12 weeks getting their supplies across. The railway opened to Bennett a year later, and the town boomed until the rails reached Whitehorse. After Bennett was abandoned, Carcross/Tagish families moved back into the area. Martha Black, a Dawson City businesswoman and politician, recalled walking over Chilkoot Pass as an ordeal she would never repeat, yet one she would not have missed. The Chilkoot Trail was redeveloped for recreation in the 1960s and today is protected and commemorated in the United States and Canada for its role in the Klondike Gold Rush.

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