Publicomos

Réf.

41776

Type

conference item

Titre

Cultural route and the heritage management challenge: The Klondike Gold Rush: A case study

Langues

English

Auteurs

Masson, Guy

Date

2005

Pagination de section

1-8

Titre de conférence

15th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Monuments and sites in their setting - conserving cultural heritage in changing townscapes and landscapes’

Lieu de conférence

Xi'an, China

Date de conférence

17 – 21 oct 2005

Mots-clés

conservation / authenticity / integrity / World Heritage List / tentative lists / cultural landscapes / cultural routes / values / management

Pays mentionnés

Canada

Monuments et sites

Klondike Gold Rush, Canada

Résumé en anglais

Canada’s cultural routes are diverse in nature. Upon the discovery of gold in 1896-98, the Klondike Gold Rush began. It captured the imagination of the world. The gold seekers struggled over the Chilkoot Trail a traditional aboriginal travel trail and in the Yukon Territory challenging landscape. Thousands of gold seekers had in few months interacted and transformed the natural landscape into a 600 km cultural route composed of stop-places, camps, goldfields and development of a boomtown.Today, that memorable cultural route contains several national historic sites of Canada commemorating the Chilkoot Trail, the discovery of gold, its associative technologies and transportation systems. Ensuring commemorative integrity of those sites becomes the primary priority for development of management plans. More, as outstanding example of a landscape which illustrate exceptional adaptation and innovation by First Nations people (criteria iv) and outstanding example of landscape mining (criteria v), the Klondike is part of Canada’s Tentative List for World Heritage Site.
This paper will focus on what is nationally significant about those sites, their heritage values and character defining elements, their holistic inter-relation with the modified setting and the cultural route as a whole. It will also focus on a management mechanism of conservation and presentation for the resources that symbolize the national significance and approach to maintain the cultural route integrity and authenticity.

Document joint

4-17.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)