T
he Carcross, Yukon community is small but mighty. As
the gateway to the Yukon from Alaska, the community
lies 74 km south of Whitehorse on the Klondike High-
way and is home to the Tagish and Tlinglit First Nation people
(and, for the trivia lovers out there, the world’s smallest desert). A
community of under 400 people, Carcross has carved out a thriv-
ing tourism economy based primarily on being in the middle of
the 110-kilometre historic railway between Skagway, Alaska and
Whitehorse, Yukon; thousands of people ride the Carnival every
day during the summer.
C/TMC (Carcross/Tagish Management Corporation), as the eco-
nomic development branch of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation,
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