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New Canaan Museum & Historical Society

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13 Oenoke Ridge
New Canaan, CT 06840 United States
201-966-1776 https://nchistory.org/

November 2025

Lunch & Learn with Dede Bartlett on her great Uncle Willie and the Yukon Gold Rush of 1896

November 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
New Canaan Museum & Historical Society, 13 Oenoke Ridge
New Canaan, CT 06840 United States
Free – $10

2026 will mark the 130th anniversary of the discovery in 1896 of gold on the Klondike River in Alaska. It has been called the largest concentration of gold ever found. 100,000 people tried to reach the Klondike Gold Fields. The gold rush was a frenzy that changed everyone whose lives touched the discovery, as well as the state of Alaska, the city of Seattle and the fortunes of men such as John Nordstrom, Frederick Trump, President Trump’s grandfather, and the…

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