DCHP-3

Back Door Route

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a route to the Klondike gold fields by way of Edmonton and the Mackenzie and Yukon river systems.

Quotations

1958
They called it the "Back Door Route" in 1898 and before a year had passed hundreds of weary, worn and broken men had come back over Edmonton's threshold from the wild and forbidding northland after failing to reach the golden riches of the Klondike.