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Bennett, British Columbia

Field	Value
name	Bennett
type	Ghost town
image_skyline	Bennett Railway station 2011.jpg
image_alt	View of Bennett Railway station, British Columbia
image_caption	Bennett railway station
pushpin_map	Canada British Columbia
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Bennett in British Columbia
pushpin_label_position	right
coordinates
coordinates_footnotes
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Canada
subdivision_type2	Province
subdivision_name2	British Columbia
subdivision_type3	Location
subdivision_name3	Bennett Lake at border between British Columbia and Yukon, Canada
established_title	Tent camp for klondikers
established_date	1897–1899

Bennett, British Columbia, Canada, is an abandoned town next to Bennett Lake and along Lindeman Creek (formerly known as the One Mile River). The townsite is now part of the Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site of Canada and is managed by Parks Canada. Bennett is also a stop on the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad during the summer months.

History

Bennett was built during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897–1899 at the end of the White Pass and Chilkoot Trails from the nearby ports of Skagway and Dyea in Alaska. Gold prospectors would pack their supplies over the Coast Mountains from the ports and then build or purchase rafts to take them down the Yukon River to the gold fields around Dawson City, Yukon. When the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad was completed in 1900 it went right to Whitehorse, passing the town. This led the entire economy of Bennett, based on stampeders and river travelers, to collapse.

One of the establishments in Bennett was the Arctic Hotel, a combination saloon, restaurant, and hotel set up by Friedrich "Fred" Trump (grandfather of Donald Trump) and Ernest Levin. The establishment included a brothel, a portrayal that Donald Trump said was "totally false".

White Pass and Yukon Route

References

"Bennett".
"Campground Guide". Parks Canada.
Pearson, Natalie Obiko. (2016-10-26). "Trump's Family Fortune Originated in a Canadian Gold-Rush Brothel". Bloomberg.
Markusoff, Jason. (October 13, 2016). "Inside the wild Canadian past of the Trump family". Maclean's.
"Donald Trump's ancestral brothel gets a new lease on life - Macleans.ca".
"Donald Trump's grandfather ran Canadian brothel during gold rush, author says".

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