Dawson City (TAN): Panning for gold and actually finding some. Have you ever dreamt of that? Klondike Visitors Association-operated DawsonCity.ca is making it possible for you to do just that.
This Canadian city of the 1896 Gold Rush is organising the Gold Rush 2, a crowdfunded event where the organisers will buy gold nuggets with the collected money and place them in the local creeks for the visitors to pan (and actually find some gold).
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The Klondike Gold Rush was the event based on which Charlie Chaplin made his 1925 film The Gold Rush.
Gold was first discovered in the area by Skookum Jim and Tagish (Dawson) Charlie of the Tagish First Nations, along with Kate and George Carmack, in 1896 and this kicked off the Klondike Goldrush. Dawson City, which was no more than a swamp that was frequently flooded by the Dawson river, soon turned into the biggest city north of Chicago with 100,000 people heading there to find gold.
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Taking place in August 2019, the Gold Rush 2 intends to attract more visitors to Dawson City.
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