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klondike
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Klondike is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in Canada . It was the only seat won by the Yukon Party in the 2000 territorial election . The electoral district was created in 1905.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tributary of the Yukon River in northwestern Canada, from Kutchin (Athabaskan) throndiuk , said to mean "hammer-water" and to be a reference to the practice of driving stakes into the riverbed to support fish traps. Scene of a gold rush after 1896.
Usage examples of klondike.
Hermann Pilz had been a German mining engineer who had come north with the Klondike stampede and stayed to start the first coal mine in Kachemak Bay, which had led to a timely investment in the Alaska Steamship Line, which evolved into a shipping company that specialized in getting freight to every community in Alaska not on the road system.
Six months later, when the sun came back and the Yukon awoke, they buckled on their heavy moneybelts and journeyed back to the Southland, where they yet live and lie mightily about the Klondike they never saw.
The crude moral worth of the Klondike woman might be all that her two defenders had alleged, and indeed I felt again that strange little thrill of almost sympathy for her as one who had been unjustly aspersed.
He went on to tell that a prospector named George Washington Carmack, along with two Indians named Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, found the gold nugget that started it all while panning for gold at the junction of the Yukon and Klondike rivers on August 17, 1896.
And there’s gold, Captain, more gold than in a thousand Klondikes and a hundred South Africas.
He deals them out on his patch of table like a senescent codger playing Klondike on his meal tray.