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Yukon Geographical Place Names Board 2016-2017 Annual Report Yukon Geographical Place Names Board 2016 – 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Yukon Geographical Place Names Board 2016 – 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 1 The names of places reflect Yukon’s diverse culture, history, and landscape. Names such as Aishihik, Kusuwa and Tuchitua are just a few of the native names found on a modern map of the Yukon. Yukon First Nations named rivers, mountains, lakes and landmarks long before the first non-native explorers and settlers arrived in the territory. Names such as Gyò Cho Chú (Big Salmon River) tell where animals and fish are plentiful. Other names, such as Thechä`l Mäˉn (Sekulman Lake), ‘Stone Scraper for Hides’ describe artifacts, people and events. Today’s Yukon First Nations still remember these names and are working to record them for future generations. Beginning in the nineteenth century, explorers, fur Many of the official names on the Yukon map today traders, and prospectors came to the Yukon to trade were given by non-native settlers who came to the Yukon with native people, search for gold, and explore the vast during the Gold Rush period of the 1890s. In the area landscape, giving their own names to the land. The around Dawson City, Allgold, Bonanza, Eureka, and Danish explorer Vitus Bering was the first non-native to Nogold recall the successes and failures of the miners name a geographical feature in northwest America. Bering who came to the territory during the Klondike Gold had entered the newly formed navy of the Russian tsar Rush. Names such as Carcross (from Caribou Crossing), Peter the Great and in 1724 was appointed to conduct an Fox Lake, and Eagle’s Nest Bluff, testify to the richness expedition to explore the water routes between Siberia and of Yukon’s wildlife resources. Other places, such as Five North America. In 1741, Bering named an island lying off Finger Rapids on the Yukon River, Blackstone Mountain, the coast in the proximity of a very prominent mountain. and White River, were named for the shape, colour, and He anchored near the island on St. Elias’ feast day and form of the land and water itself. One of the best known named the island for the saint. The dominant mountain names of this type is Whitehorse, which took its name in question was, later in the eighteenth century, given from the White Horse Rapids, whose foamy white crests the name of the island and Mount St. Elias became one reminded early prospectors of horses’ manes. Another of several peaks that define the border between Canada’s legend tells of a chief’s white horse drowning there. Yukon and the American State of Alaska. While Bering and explorers to follow gave names to geographical features without asking the local names for places, others, such as geologist George Dawson and the Yukon’s first Commissioner, William Ogilvie, recorded many native names during their years in the Yukon, including the Yusezyu and Tatchun Rivers in central Yukon. (left) The name Tagish figures in Tagish (community), (cover) Carcross, Yukon. The mountains and lakes in this area Tagish Lake, Tagish Bridge, and Tagish River. It is a close are named in English as well as in two Yukon First Nations approximation of the Athabaskan name Tagish,- which languages, Tagish Athabaskan and Tlingit. Carcross is an references the ‘break up of ice on a lake or river’, as abbreviation of ‘Caribou Crossing’. The late Tagish elder shown in this stretch of the Tagish River. Angela Sidney explained that the caribou actually crossed at a narrow point on Nares Lake. That crossing was called Medzih E'òł in the Tagish Language, and Wàtsix Nakwani Yé in Tlingit, both meaning ‘place where caribou swim across’. Yukon Geographical Place Names Board 2016 – 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 2 The Origin of the Yukon Geographical In 1995, under the Umbrella Final Agreement, the Yukon Geographical Names Board was replaced by the Yukon Geographical Place Names Board Place Names Board (YGPNB). In 1897, Canada established the Geographic Board of Canada whose The Board’s Responsibilities mandate was to approve official place names across the country. Interestingly, one of the motivations for establishing this board The Yukon Geographical Place Names Board (YGPNB) is came from events happening in the Yukon, from the discovery of constituted under the Umbrella Final Agreement (UFA), signed gold in the Klondike. Today, the successor to this Board is known by the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN), the Yukon as the Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) which until Government and the Government of Canada. The Board’s recently was referred to as the Canadian Permanent Committee primary function is to consider and recommend the naming or on Geographical Names (CPCGN). The GNBC is made up of renaming of places or features located within the Yukon with 23 members representing the provinces and territories, as well as special reference to Chapter 13, Section 11 of the UFA. The Board’s mandate does not include the naming or renaming of federal departments that deal with surveying, mapping, translation, features or sites within municipal boundaries or of transportation archives, parks, and native affairs. corridors (highways and bridges). In 1986, the responsibility for naming geographical features in the Yukon was transferred from the Department of Indian and Board Members Northern Affairs to the Government of Yukon, putting geographical The Board is comprised of six Yukoners who share a common naming in the hands of Yukon residents for the first time. As part interest in developing place name policies that address all of this transfer the Government of Yukon established the Yukon Yukoners. Three members are nominated by the Yukon Geographical Names Board (YGNB) in 1987 to undertake the job Government and three by the Council of Yukon First Nations, of researching and approving geographical names. and all serve three-year terms. (below) St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church at Bennett is located on the historic Chilkoot Trail from Dyea on the Alaskan coast to Bennett, BC. It was constructed in 1899 from local materials to the design of the pastor, Rev. J. A. Sinclair. It is now the only original building left of a once-thriving community. Yukon Geographical Place Names Board 2016 – 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Yukon Geographical Place Names Board 2016 – 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 3 Member Profiles 2016-2017 CO-CHAIRS: › RON CHAMBERS: Mr. Chambers is of › JOHN RITTER, CO-CHAIR: Mr. Ritter has served Southern Tutchone, Tlingit and Scottish the Board for four consecutive terms. He is also ancestry. He was born and raised in the Director Emeritus of the Yukon Native Language Kluane area but spent his high school years in Centre. As a linguist, he has worked with all Haines, Alaska, and northern California. After Yukon languages and contributes to the spelling graduation, he pursued his artistic interests and pronunciation of native place names. Also at SAIT in Calgary. He was a Park Warden in crucial to the place name application process is Jasper and Kluane parks for 22 years before his ability to provide the Board with translation retiring to start his own guiding business. Ron services during consultation periods held with has been a member of many boards over the First Nations elders. years and was Deputy Chief of Champagne and Aishihik First Nations. He currently sits on the Yukon Heritage Resources Board and Yukon River Salmon Subcommittee. MEMBERS: › GORDON ALLISON: Mr. Allison’s career has › BESSIE COOLEY: Ms. Cooley is a fluent speaker centred around natural resource management, of the Tlingit language and served for many with positions with the Federal and First years as the Tlingit Language Instructor at the Nations governments. He presently does Teslin School. At Yukon College she completed contract work in land management and heritage, the Certificate and Diploma Courses for Native primarily for CAFN, from his long-time home Language Instructors, and earned both an in Haines Junction. He has a keen interest in Associate of Applied Science degree in Native Yukon’s geography and history and in his free Language Education and a Bachelor of Arts time enjoys historical research. degree in Native Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In retirement Bessie continues to serve as a Tlingit language resource person › ANDRÉ BOURCIER: Dr. Bourcier holds a and mentor in her home community of Teslin. Ph. D. in linguistics and has studied seven of the eight Yukon FN languages in his 15 years with the Yukon Native Language Centre. His › TESTLOA SMITH: Testloa Smith was appointed particular study has been Gwich’in, and he to the Board in 2016. He is a member of the Ross has also worked in Inuvialuit. He is presently River Dena Council and is a fluent speaker of Acting Director of YNLC. Dr. Bourcier’s the Kaska language. Testloa has served in various knowledge of the Yukon languages is a great capacities for the Ross River Dena Council asset to the Board. and the Kaska Dena Council for many years. He is currently serving as Land Steward in the Department of Lands, Resources, and Heritage for the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council in Whitehorse. SUPPORT PERSONNEL: › DEANA LEMKE: Ms. Lemke was first › GARRY NJOOTLI: Mr. Njootli was appointed contracted by the Board during the 2006- Yukon Toponymist in 2003. He is responsible 2007 fiscal year to provide administrative for reviewing place-name submissions sent and secretariat support for its activities. She to the Government of Yukon’s Heritage is the proprietor of Beyond Words Business Resources Unit. He ensures they are complete Services and has extensive experience in and meet basic criteria before being forwarded board functioning and financial management. to the Yukon Geographical Place Names Board for consideration.
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