Stikine Trail

STIKINE TRAIL  () was part of a proposed "all-Canadian" route through northern BC to the Yukon during the Klondike GOLD RUSH. Early in 1898, prospectors hurried north by steamship to Wrangell, Alaska, where they made their way inland up the STIKINE R to the head of navigation at TELEGRAPH CREEK. The federal government had announced that Donald Mann and William Mackenzie, two railway tycoons, would be building a rail line from the river...

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