A Guide to Carcross

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Unless otherwise stated, these images are from the collection of Murray Lundberg.

This is the earliest Carcross postcard I have seen. It was probably published during the silver mining rush in 1906.

Conrad City was the town that formed a few miles south of Carcross in 1905 to serve the Conrad silver mines. Few signs of the town remain today. The sternwheeler Gleaner is sitting at the ore dock.

This wagon bridge across Lake Bennett was built during the silver mining boom in 1905-1906. You can see a close-up photo of it here and an album of photos showing the construction of a new bridge in 2007 here.

This silver fox farm was one of several that operated in the Carcross area during the 1920s.

Patsy Henderson, who may have been with the party that discovered gold in the Klondike in 1896, entertained White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) train passengers for many years in Carcross.

Geodetic control work for the construction of the Alaska Highway is carried out in 1943 in the Carcross Dunes by the triangulation party of John Bowie. Photo courtesy of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA).

The Carcross WP&YR depot on a busy tour day. From the collection of Boerries Burkhardt. On the back of this and the new 3 photos is stamped "Smith & Butterfield Camera Shop, Evansville IND. Date: November 22, 1948". The photos, however, may date to the late 1930s.

The Duchess. From the collection of Boerries Burkhardt.

The Tutshi. From the collection of Boerries Burkhardt.

Though under a new name and seldom open anymore, the Yukon Ivory Shop still exists, beside the Carcross Barracks gift shop, now located in the building seen in the background. From the collection of Boerries Burkhardt.

This aerial photo was taken prior to 1932, when the sternwheeler Gleaner was sidetracked (moved off the ways) to make room for the Tutshi.

The steam locomotive "Duchess" in the early 1950s.

The WP&YR railway bridge, probably in the early 1950s. The cabin to the far right, built in 1943, is the home of ExploreNorth guide Murray Lundberg.

The sternwheeler Tutshi in the 1950s.

Emerald Lake, just north of Carcross, in the early 1960s.

The "Duchess" and Tutshi in the 1960s.

A WP&YR passenger train along Lake Bennett south of Carcross in the 1960s. A serrated edge indicates that this postcard was with the card above in booklet form.

A photo of the village and lakes in about 1970. The new road in the left foreground ran from the Arctic Gold & Silver Mine to a spur on the WP&YR railway.

Carcross and the sternwheeler Tutshi from the highway bridge over the Nares River in the 1980s.

Fokker CF-AAM, which operated out of Carcross from 1934 until 1937, returned for a visit in 2001. For lots more information and photos, see this feature.