Teslin (Yukon)

Teslin is a Canadian town in the Yukon Territory, with around 480 inhabitants.

It is located in the remote high mountains of the Rocky Mountains on the 144 km long Teslin Lake, Teslin is from River, a tributary of the Yukon, is removed.

By the end of the 19th century was a summer camp Teslin Tlingit, in whose language the word refers to a long, narrow watercourse. A first permanent settlement was established during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898; the Hudson's Bay Company set up a trading post in 1903 where a.

At Mile 804 of the Alaska Highway is the George Johnston Museum, whose name recalls the photographer George Johnston, a Tlingit, whose pictures will be shown from the beginning of the 20th century there. There are also artifacts of the Tlingit culture.

1923, the Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System has been set up to improve communications in Whitehorse. In 1941, a first AERadio Range Navigation station in Teslin, and more specifically the Teslin Hill at the local airfield. The equipment was transported there before the construction of the Alaska Highway on the Teslin River. These stations were first aircraft navigation for the support of the Soviet Union; whole, oriented 8100 aircraft to their signals. At the opening ceremony, Peter Johnston, chief of the Teslin Tlingit Tribal Council were present, as well as Clara Jules, Mayor of Teslin, Lieutenant - Colonel Laniel of the Canadian Air Force, the Minister Marian Horne and Elaine Taylor and other notables. Teslin was at that time a town of the local First Nation with only five non-Indian residents. The messages were gemorst. Similar stations were in Beaton River, Swift River, Aishihik, and Snag. Today, this radio station is located in the local George Johnston Museum. The radio system existed until 1955.

The Bridge " Johnson's Crossing" before the town of Teslin is the starting point for river travelers, the paddle ( about 780 miles) on the Teslin River and the Yukon to Dawson electricity.