Designating Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park

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Part VI

The President

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Proclamation 7114--Designating Klondike Gold Rush International
Historical Park

Executive Order 13095--Suspension of Executive Order 13083

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 7114 of August 5, 1998

Designating Klondike Gold Rush International
Historical Park

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

A century ago, the Klondike Gold Rush began a migration
that forever changed Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
More than 100,000 people headed north during 1897 and
1898, catapulting a little-known region from obscurity
to the center of the world stage. While the Klondike
was not the first or largest western gold rush, coming
nearly 50 years after the 1848 gold discovery at
Sutter's Mill, California, it is remembered for the
sheer drama by which it was announced to the world and
for its century-long influence on Alaska and the upper
Yukon River basin.

The United States and Canada have been engaged for 30
years in joint planning and cooperation to commemorate
the Klondike Gold Rush and preserve historic structures
and trails on both sides of the international boundary.
In 1976, the Government of the United States
established Klondike Gold Rush National Historical
Park, consisting of a Seattle unit, a Skagway unit, a
Chilkoot Pass unit, and a White Pass unit, to preserve
the historic structures and trails. The Government of
Canada has recognized the national significance of the
Chilkoot Trail and Dawson Historical Complex by
designating them as National Historic Sites. It has
also designated a section of the Yukon River as a
Canadian Heritage River and taken other steps to
commemorate the rich history of this region.

It is the desire of the United States to join our
Canadian neighbors in celebrating our shared history on
the occasion of the centennial of the Klondike Gold
Rush and to reaffirm the commitment of the United
States to continuing the joint efforts of both nations
to preserve our shared Klondike history.

In 1996, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien
proclaimed that, ``the governments of Canada and the
United States and of Yukon and Alaska in a long-
standing spirit of cooperation have agreed to establish
the Klondike Gold Rush International Historic Park,
incorporating the resources of the Chilkoot Trail
National Historic Site in British Columbia and the
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Alaska .
. .''

Section 3(a) of U.S. Public Law 94-323 states, ``At
such time . . . that planning, development, and
protection of the adjacent or related historic and
scenic resources in Canada have been accomplished by
the Government of Canada in a manner consistent with
the purposes for which the park was established, and
upon enactment of a provision similar to this section
by the proper authority of the Canadian Government, the
President is authorized to issue a proclamation
designating and including the park as a part of an
international historical park to be known as Klondike
Gold Rush International Historical Park.''

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by section 3(a) of Public Law 94-323 of
June 30, 1976, do proclaim that Klondike Gold Rush
National Historical Park is designated and included as
part of an international historical park to be known as
Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and
twenty-third.