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The South Edmonton train station, at Whyte Avenue and 103rd Street, was the northern-most railway stop in North America.
Many took the train to there and then set off from Edmonton to travel - on foot, by horseback or by boat - the 3000 kilometres to the [[Yukon Gold fields]].
The Edmonton Bulletin of Dec. 15, 1898 reported that Amable Lamoureaux, of Sturgeon Crossing on the Athabasca Trail, made the trip in an incredible 63 days. (Likely he was of the Ft. Saskatchewan Lamoureaux'es.)
Most others took more than year especially if they had to winter over at some point along the way. So it seems difficult to believe the report.
Perhaps the Bulletin clarified the report later.
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