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Dawson

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Noun

1. dawson

a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike

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Dawson

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noun
a town in NW Canada, in Yukon on the Yukon River: a boom town during the Klondike gold rush (at its height in 1899). Pop: 1251 (2001)

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Dawson

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Sir John William1820-99; Cdn. geologist, naturalist, & educator
city in W Yukon Territory, Canada, on the Yukon River: former gold-mining center: pop. 1,300

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Dawson

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A town of western Yukon Territory, Canada, at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. A boom town during the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s, it was the territorial capital from 1898 to 1951.

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