Are Dawson Creek and Dawson City the same place?
A. No. Dawson Creek is in the province of British Columbia and is Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway. Dawson City is in the Yukon Territory, is 300 miles north west of Whitehorse, Yukon (which is 950 miles north of Dawson Creek, B.C) and is on the Klondike Highway. You can get to Alaska through Dawson City and over the Top of the World Highway. Confusion has come about over the years because the cities’ names are almost the same. They were both named after George Mercer Dawson who was a renowned surveyor that traveled to both sites in the late 1800’s.
