North West Mounted Police Tagish Post, c1898 Routes to the Klondike; Living Conditions Photograph of many men working

Photograph of many men working around sluice runs

Inscription recto: Dawson Curling Club Bonspiel Nov (

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View of two men with a variety of rifles seated outside of the Montana Steam Laundry

The photograph shows men and horses climbing the Chilkoot Pass

North West Mounted Police Tagish Post, c1898 Routes to the Klondike; Living Conditions Photograph of many men workingPhotograph of group of Northwest Mounted Police in uniform standing outside a long log building (probably the barracks) at Tagish Post. This was one of the most important posts in the Yukon, also called Fort Sifton after the then Minister of the Interior. Every traveller registered his party and his boat and was given a registration number. Opened in 1897, it brought some order to the mad rush down the river. A post office was open from August 20,