Keno City Mining Museum

Keno City Mining Museum

Established	c.1979
Location	Keno City Mining Museum
Coordinates	63.9096°N 135.3028°W / 63.9096; -135.3028
Type	Mining
Collections	Artifacts and photographs
Visitors	Approximately 2,000 (1991)

Keno City Mining Museum is a history museum located in Keno City, Yukon, Canada. It was established around 1979 and has artifacts related to the area's gold and silver mining.[1][2]

The museum occupies Jackson Hall, the city's former community centre built in 1922.[3][4] It was established in 1979 with the assistance of Terry J. Levicki, a geologist who worked for United Keno Hill Mines Ltd., a company in Elsa.[1]

The museum is open to visitors from June to September.[1] Around 1991, the museum received roughly 500 visitors each month during its annual four months of operation.[3]

Artifacts

The museum displays objects such as equipment, and memorabilia. It has a large collection of photographs on the second floor and a garage across the street that stores bigger items. Some of the artifacts are as follows:[3]

• Listerine bottle circa 1900
• Rocking wooden washer
• Tins of Lucky Strike Cola
• The original telephone exchange that was used to send and receive all calls at the time
• Handmade axes
• Large saws that were needed to create ice blocks
• Safety helmets
• Drill bits
• A bucket that was hand-cranked to bring ore to the surface from underground locations
• An addressograph for producing employee pay checks that is said to have been used up until about 1981.
• The upstairs houses a myriad of old photos.

References

1. http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/publications/keno_wt.pdf ^[bare URL PDF]
2. "Yukon Museum Guide: Keno City Mining Museum". yukonmuseums.ca.
3. "Keno City museum details mining history". northernminer.com.
4. "Keno City Mining Museum". heritageyukon.ca.

External links

• Examples of images on display