Mayo, Yukon

History

Before Europeans came there were in the area two communities of the Na-cho Nyäk Dun people, who lived by hunting and trapping. The river now known as the Stewart River was known as the "Náhcho Nyäk" ('Great River'). The people lived across the Stewart River from the main focus of today's Mayo, in a district today called "Old Mayo village". The old settlement was reinstated on the initiative of a missionary, but in 1936 the river burst its banks and flattened much of the old village, destroying the church and many cultural treasures.

The first gold discoveries in the area were made in the 1880s: silver was also discovered some time later. Until the middle of the 20th century Mayo was only connected with the outside world by the river and received any supplies by boat. In the 1950s the construction of the Klondike Highway and the Silver Trail provided Mayo with a road link to Stewart Crossing.

Between 1973 and 1984 negotiation took place between the government and Northern Tutchone leaders over land rights and self-government. A breakthrough came only in 1993 with a treaty between the residents and the lawmakers concerning an area of 4739 km2 and a payment, over fifteen years, totalling C$14.5 million.

Together with the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation an agreement has been made with Yukon Energy to supply electricity to Dawson City using the Mayo-Dawson Power Line.

May 2008 saw a preliminary agreement with Alexco Resource Corp concerning silver extraction in the Keno Hill Silver area near the far end of Mayo Lake (approximately 45 km northeast of the village) where the corporation operates approximately 40 silver mines.

Demographics

|1951|241 |1956|249 |1961|342 |1966|479 |1971|381 |1976|448 |1981|398 |1986|317 |1991|243 |1996|324 |2001|366 |2006|248 |2011|226 |2016|200 |2021|188

In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, Mayo had a population of 188 living in 108 of its 149 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 200. With a land area of 0.98 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Geography

Climate

Mayo has a subarctic climate (Köppen: Dfc), with generally warm summers and severely cold winters lasting half the year. Spring and autumn are very short transitional seasons between summer and winter, with average temperatures rising and falling very fast during these times.

The temperature difference between the record low in February (-62.2 C) and the record high in June (36.1 C) is (-98.3 C-change), one of the largest temperature differentials ever recorded. It has some of the warmest summers in the Yukon with a mean average summer temperature of 14.7 C.

WMO ID: 71965; coordinates ; elevation: 503.8 m; 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1924–present |Jan record high C = 10.1 |Feb record high C = 12.2 |Mar record high C = 15.8 |Apr record high C = 22.8 |May record high C = 33.5 |Jun record high C = 36.1 |Jul record high C = 35.6 |Aug record high C = 32.6 |Sep record high C = 26.7 |Oct record high C = 22.6 |Nov record high C = 13.9 |Dec record high C = 11.8 |year record high C = 36.1 |Jan record low C = -58.3 |Feb record low C = -62.2 |Mar record low C = -48.9 |Apr record low C = -41.1 |May record low C = -21.7 |Jun record low C = -3.9 |Jul record low C = -2.8 |Aug record low C = -10.6 |Sep record low C = -15.6 |Oct record low C = -36.7 |Nov record low C = -50.6 |Dec record low C = -57.8 |year record low C = -62.2 |access-date = 5 July 2024 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20240705005852/https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1991_2020_e.html?searchType=stnProv&lstProvince=YT&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=429000000&dispBack=0 |archive-date = 2024-07-05}}

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