Mount Lorne (Yukon)

Mount Lorne is a hamlet with 370 inhabitants ( 2006) in the Canadian Yukon. Located just south of Whitehorse and consists of several settlements along the south Klondike Highway and its side streets.

55 inhabitants are among the First Nations, mostly members of the Carcross / Tagish First Nation.

History

Early History

The nearby Lake Annie 1992 artifacts have been found that indicate residents who already lived here before 6000 BC. The predecessor of today's Carcross / Tagish First Nation lived as hunters, gatherers and fishermen in the border area between British Columbia and Yukon. You had when the first white men came to the region, their main camp on Tagish River. There were two large Klanhäuser similar to those of the Tlingit on the coast. With them, they exchanged long before the arrival of Europeans furs for mussels, the fat of the fish candles, wooden boxes and seaweed. These goods they traded eastern and south with neighboring tribes, until about the Ross River. The contact with the Tlingit was so intense that their cultures have great matches. According to the extreme climate and the course of the year they followed to get to food, the wild and the changing vegetation.

Around 8000 BC lived caribou and bison herds in a park-like grasslands in the valleys of Watson and Wheaton. The melting glaciers and ice sheets of the last ice age left behind vast lakes and countless rivers. Few people lived here, who left only two major spearheads the Annie Lake. Fish, however, there was in the just released by the ice landscape hardly. Characteristic of this period are tiny blades, which are called micro blades.

Around 4000 BC, the area was covered by sand dunes, but left behind a group of hunters remains of a fire, which could be dated. The Northern Archaic culture brought forth here an unusual spearhead that was first discovered at the Annie Lake, and is known as Annie Lake Point.

Large forest fires blazed after this period of erosion in places the way, and sand dunes piled up again. Human traces are undetectable. At the Annie Lake was a hunting camp, from which the men hunted sheep, caribou and mountain goats. In 500 AD, the stock reached a peak intensity of use, the climate was more humid, the dense forests. Maybe there was a sweat lodge. To 750 AD, a massive volcanic eruption in the upper reaches of the White River, the major parts of the area occurred covered with ash and forcing the inhabitants to flee. At the Annie Lake, however, there was only a thin layer of ash, which probably allowed to stay or to return at least a little later.