March 2003

Government of Yukon
Business, Tourism and Culture
Cultural Services Branch

Lansing Post

In August 2002 archaeological investigations were carried out at Lansing Post Historic Site to help determine the boundaries of the site and other potential heritage management issues in the immediate area. As set out in the Nacho N’yak Dun First Nation Final Agreement, Lansing Post is owned by the First Nation but is to be managed in accordance with a management plan to be developed in co-operation with the Government of Yukon.

Lansing Post is located at the confluence of the Lansing and Stewart Rivers about 120 kilometres east of Mayo. Established in 1902, the trading post served northern Tutchone from the upper Stewart, Peel and Macmillan Rivers, and Mackenzie Indians from Fort Norman. A local trapper currently lives at the site with his family.

The general area has suffered from extensive riverbank erosion and forest fires. It has been estimated that 25 to 30 metres of the bank has eroded at the site over the past 20 years, resulting in the need to move one historic building. Nine graves and human remains are exposed in the eroding bank of the Stewart River at a graveyard located opposite Lansing Post. A further 22 graves were counted above the bank.

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