Eat, Drink, Shop

Get your fill

Small as Dawson City may be, we challenge you to not be impressed with the variety, quality and uniqueness of the places to eat, drink and shop here. Many of our restaurants have spacious patios to take in the beautiful summer light while eating meals made with local produce and sipping on Yukon-brewed beverages. With a weekly Farmers Market and Arts and Craft Fair all summer long, you can taste the vegetables that come from the richest soil in all the Yukon.

Find handmade goods, and beautiful Klondike jewelry at our many stores. Our bars range from as cosmopolitan as they come, offering sophisticated signature cocktails to watering holes serving cold draft beer and colourful regular clientele. Wherever you find yourself enjoying a beverage, don’t ring the bell unless you are prepared to buy the whole house a round!

Did You Know?

Dawson City is named after George Mercer Dawson, director of the Geological Survey of Canada and leader of the expedition that explored the region in 1887, with the purpose of surveying the Alaska boundary at the Yukon River.

Did You Know?

At the height of the gold rush, Dawson was so cut off and people so hungry for news, that even months old newspapers were auctioned off. Some kind people read their papers aloud in public.

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In only one year– 1900– was more than a million ounces of gold taken out of the Klondike goldfields. At that time is was only worth $22 million.

Did You Know?

Before Dawson’s first bank opened in 1898, everything was paid for in gold nuggets and gold dust, carried around in caribou skin pouches called “pokes”.

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For fifty-five years between the creation of the Yukon in 1898 and 1953, Dawson City was the capital of the Yukon.

Did You Know?

Tex Rickard, who went on to build Madison Square Gardens and start the New York Rangers, worked as a bartender in Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush.