[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 152 (Friday, August 7, 1998)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 42563-42564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21399]



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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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                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.''

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                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.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 98-21399
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