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