Pin Quest Yukon

Welcome to Pin Quest Yukon

As of the launch of Pin Quest Yukon in 2022, the Yukon territory has eight municipalities. A pin for each of these municipalities has been collected and are all displayed below.

Yukon Pins

A lapel pin featuring a blue mountain over a round white background. To either side are stalks of purple fireweed. At the top of the pin is the word Carmacks. At the bottom is a banner with the word Yukon.

Carmacks, Village of

The Carmacks area was a rest stop on an indigenous trade route for thousands of years before the early 1890s when European settlers built a trade post in the area to serve a nearby coal mine. The town was officially incorporated in 1984.

A round lapel pin with a scene depicting two miners: one turning a crank with a bucket on the end, the other holding a set of scales. The miners are standing in front of a background of mountains and behind a set of mining tools including a shovel, pickaxe, and gold-mining pan. Above the miners is the phrase In God We Trust. Around the image is a border with the words The City of Dawson Y.T., Incorporated Jan. 9 1902. A second border appears as rope and circles the edge of the pin.

Dawson City

Traditionally territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people, Dawson City is tied to the Klondike Gold Rush in Canadian lore. Between 1896 and 1898, the First Nations fishing camp became a city of 17,000 and was Yukon’s capital for 54 years.

A semi-circle lapel pin in white and blue with a series of cascading images presented inside each other. The largest is a mountain inside of which is a city skyline, inside of which is a truck, inside of which is a miner, inside of which is an Native canoe. At the bottom of the pin are the words Faro Yukon.

Faro, Town of

Most unique municipal name origin from this project so far! Faro is named after a 17th century card game that was briefly illegal in France and was more popular than poker until the early 1900s.

An oval lapel pin with a scene of a town at a crossroads resting below the mountains. In the foreground, a bush of fireweed stands in front of a forest. At the top of the pin are the words Village of Haines Junction. At the bottom are the words Gateway to Kluane.

Haines Junction, Village of

Traditionally hunting and fishing areas for the Southern Tutchone people, modern Haines Junction developed in the 1940s during construction of the Alaska Highway and was a construction camp for the US Army Corps of Engineers who built the highway

A circular lapel pin with a red background. A red heart rests over a mountain shaped like the Yukon Territory and a white river runs across the field. A black border around the edge reads “Village of Mayo Heart of the Yukon”.

Mayo, Village of

Mayo was originally home to the Na-cho Nyäk Dun people who still live in the area, The original missionary village settlement was destroyed by a flood in 1934. The community was named after circus acrobat turned explorer Alfred Mayo.

A circular lapel pin with a white upper half and black lower half. The pin features a scene with a silhouetted wolf and large bird along the lush green banks of a river. A sin rises over a blue horizon in the background. At the top of the pin are the words Na-Cho Nyak Dun, Big River People. At the borrom of the pin is a banner with the words Mayo, YT

Mayo, Village of

An alternative pin for the Village of Mayo.

A square lapel pin showing a large bridge spanning a lake. In the background mountains rise over a forest while the sun rises behind them. Over top of the mountains are the words Village of Teslin Yukon Territory, Canada.

Teslin, Village of

Teslin is home of the Teslin Island Tlingit First Nations. It is located on Teslin Lake which is home to 11 species of fish and is spanned by Nisutlin Bridge - the longest span on the entire Alaska Highway.

A lapel pin depicting a highway cutting across rolling fields and mountains in the background. At the side of the road is a signpost with multiple signs pointing in different directions. Above the road is a sign reading Watson Lake. At the bottom of the pin is a banner with the words Yukon’s Gateway.

Watson Lake, Town of

Watson Lake’s most famous tourist attraction was started by a homesick US soldier who place a sign pointing towards his hometown. Over time, over 77,000 signs have been added to the Signpost Forest and more are added by visitors every year.

A lapel pin with a white horse rearing up in front of a mountain range. At the bottom of the pin, a cutout reads Whitehorse Yukon.

Whitehorse, City of

In 2007, Whitehorse established an environmental sustainability plan with a range of actions identified by members of the public. In 2013, it received a Guinness World Record as the city with the least air pollution in the world!

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