Discovery Claim

It is the site where, in the afternoon of August 16, 1896, the first piece of gold was found in the Yukon by prospectors.

The Discovery claim was designated a National Historic Site of Canada on July 13, 1998.

On August 16, 1896 George Carmack, an American prospector, his Tagish wife Kate (birthname Shaaw Tláa), her brother Skookum Jim (birthname Keish), and their nephew Dawson Charlie (K̲áa Goox̱), while travelling through the area, stopped to rest on the banks of one of the Klondike River's tributaries called Bonanza Creek, then called Rabbit Creek.

At that time, being the first to discover gold in an area entitled him to stake another, second claim.

The other two claims were staked on behalf of Skookum Jim and Dawson Charlie.