Keno City, Yukon
Keno City is a very small community in the Yukon Territory at the end of the Silver Trail Highway.
Keno City was named after the Gambling Keno, which was very popular in the mining camps in the late 20th century. The population in 2006 was exactly 15 It is about 14 miles from Elsa, which is now a ghost town.
1919 John August commanders took place on Lightning Creek silver, the same year Louis Bouvette found at Keno Hill silver and lead ( in the form of galena ). Commander in 1898 came to the Klondike Gold Rush in the North and in 1908 and 1909 claims filed in the territory of the later Keno. The wood of log houses from Duncan Creek were taken apart and rebuilt again in Keno. 1920, the place had been a hotel, the Keno City Hotel, which was opened in 1963 again, and was operated until the mine was closed in 1989. Also the Keno City Cafe, 1949, a restaurant was created. Built in 1922 the Territorial Agent Victor Grant a hut, the Grant Cabin. Frank White, whose cabin is also obtained, worked on the development of the sternwheeler SS Keno, which is today in Dawson. She was flat enough to ride on the Stewart River and so can bind to Keno to the traffic. Also preserved is the hut of Ernest Joseph Corp., who represented the Mayo District, Yukon Council from 1934 to 1939.
1922 were transported to Mayo 12,000 tons of silver ore. Between 1945 and 1989 the nearby mine produced 150 million ounces of silver in Elsa, 490 million pounds of lead and 370 million pounds of zinc. It was the largest silver mine in Canada.
1923 was a station for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( detachment ), which, however, only in 1937 was a sub - detachment in the village. The building had two cells.
Around 1950, some prostitutes from Dawson after Keno, among them Margaret Vera Dorval, came to be known as " Bombay Peggy ", which carried on its business in the Tolmie Cabin. Already in the 40s earned Janice Anne ( " Alteration Anne " ), who had come from Whitehorse, their money in the same industry. Caroline "Ma" Ericsson introduced a so-called boarding house, where they rented individual rooms on time. They supplied the miners with edibles.
Starting in 1954, the Anglican Church All Saints Anglican Church had the. As early as 1949 was with Henk Huijbers a man from the Dutch resistance against the German occupation - he received in 1982 an award from the Dutch Parliament - come to Keno, who led the Catholic Church. This, however, was sold at the end of the 70s.
Today live in Keno City a few artists, miners and pensioners.
Tourist attractions here are the Keno Mining Museum and the signpost, which is located on the top of Keno Hill. In the museum, the history of mining in the Silver Trail through a wide collection of historical objects is shown.