Elsa is a former privately owned mining town in the Canadian territory of Yukon, between the Stewart River valley to the south and the Mackenzie Mountains to the north. It is located at Kilometre 97 (Mile ) of the Silver Trail, approximately north of Whitehorse and east of the Alaskan border.
History
The town was built in 1935 by the mining company Treadwell Yukon to support the development of a new mill for the nearby deposits of silver, lead, and zinc. and by the 1950s UKHM was the second largest producer of silver in Canada and the fourth largest in the world.
At its peak in the 1960s, Elsa was home to 600 UKHM employees and their families.