an area of the Yukon Territory of north-west Canada where gold was discovered in 1897. This led to the Klondike gold rush , in which about 30 000 people, many of them from the US, travelled to the Klondike in the hope of finding gold. Gold worth about $22 million was found in 1900, but the supply did not last long, and many people then moved on to Alaska . Charlie Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush (1925) was based on this event.
See also Gold Rush .