Snap shooting on Black Lake, Yukon in Sept 1898 by H C Barley courtesy of Yukon Archives
Toronto. The Yukon Archives pulled together a nifty little illustrated pdf covering their history from 1972 to 2012 including a selection of photographs and memorabilia from its fonds.
Like other provinces and territories, the Yukon has many lakes. To the left is a century plus photograph from the YA fonds showing two ladies taking snap shots up on Black Lake. The lake is in the southern part of the Yukon closer to the BC border.
According to the American site, Geodata, “Black Lake is a natural, glacier lake formed by the same glacier that carved out the Great Lakes. The glacier melted from 11,000 to 15,000 years ago, toward the end of the most recent ice age. The resulting water created the lake.”
Photo historians and image collectors will enjoy both the Yukon Archives in Whitehorse and this brief history of the archives in recent times.
A very special thank you to my good friend and fellow photo historian for discovering and sharing the wonderful archives in our very far north west territory nestled against Alaska and BC and in an earlier century famous for it gold rush and Chilkoot trail.
