2013 VACATION PLANNER - Travel Yukon
2013 VACATION PLANNER - Travel Yukon
2013 VACATION PLANNER - Travel Yukon
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Silver Trail<br />
Mining History<br />
Though it never achieved Klondike-style<br />
fame, the Silver Trail has an equally long<br />
and colourful mining history. Starting in<br />
the 1880s, prospectors worked the Stewart<br />
River and endured hardships in remote<br />
creeks searching for gold and silver. The<br />
town of Mayo was established in the early<br />
1900s as a river settlement and supply<br />
centre for the Duncan Creek gold miners.<br />
By the 1920s, rich silver strikes on Keno<br />
Hill turned Keno into the centre of a<br />
booming mining district.<br />
Sternwheelers transported bags of ore<br />
down the Stewart River until a road was<br />
completed in 1950. Between 1945 and<br />
1989, the mine at nearby Elsa produced<br />
150 million ounces of silver, 490 million<br />
pounds of lead, and 370 million pounds<br />
of zinc, and was a top silver producer in<br />
Canada. Today networks of marked trails<br />
surround Mayo and Keno Hill, and the<br />
region is dotted with artifacts, aging<br />
buildings and old mining trails. Many of<br />
these “abandoned” mines are still privately<br />
owned—for your own safety, please do<br />
not enter.<br />
EVENtS, FEStIVaLS<br />
aNd attRaCtIONS<br />
Museums and Interpretive Centres<br />
MAYO<br />
Binet House Museum<br />
304 Second Avenue<br />
Box 160<br />
Mayo, <strong>Yukon</strong> Y0B 1M0<br />
Tel: (867) 996-2317<br />
Fax: (867) 996-2907<br />
mayo@northwestel.net<br />
www.yukonweb.com/community/mayo<br />
Museum and Visitor Information Centre with a gift<br />
shop showcasing local arts and crafts.<br />
The famous Keno City Snack Bar – YG<br />
KENO<br />
Keno City Mining Museum<br />
In the centre of town<br />
Box 17, Site 1<br />
Keno, <strong>Yukon</strong> Y0B 1M1<br />
Tel: (867) 995-3103<br />
Fax: (867) 995-3103<br />
Unique displays of a century of silver and gold<br />
mining. Tools, equipment, memorabilia, photographs<br />
of life in an isolated mining town. Open daily,<br />
Victoria Day Weekend to Labour Day Weekend.<br />
Unique gift shop.<br />
VISItOR SERVICES<br />
Information<br />
MAYO<br />
Binet House Museum<br />
304 Second Avenue<br />
Box 160<br />
Mayo, <strong>Yukon</strong> Y0B 1M0<br />
Tel: (867) 996-2317<br />
Fax: (867) 996-2907<br />
mayo@northwestel.net<br />
www.yukonweb.com/community/mayo<br />
Museum and Visitor Information Centre with a gift<br />
shop showcasing local arts and crafts.<br />
> Silver Trail travelyukon.com 81
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