Yukon
Northern territory of Canada
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| 2023 | Douglas Cooper became the principal of J.V. Clark School for the 2023-2024 school year. |
| 2023 | Forty Mile (Ch'ëdähdëk) became part of the Tr'ondëk-Klondike UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognizing the transformation of the landscape and Indigenous adaptation to European colonization. |
| 2021 | Brendan Hanley of the Liberal Party was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Yukon electoral district. |
| 2021 | Census recorded Whitehorse with a population of 28,201 residents, confirming its status as the largest city in Northern Canada's three territories. |
| October 26 2021 | Ralph Shaw shot and killed two people in Faro, Yukon Territory, including town councilor Patrick McCracken (73) and his estranged wife Saenduean Honchaiyaphum (42). One man was critically injured. |
| October 26 2021 | Jack Bowers' swearing-in ceremony as the town's new mayor was postponed due to the shooting incident. |
| October 26 2021 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police placed the entire town of Faro into lockdown at 4:57 PM, rescinding the order at 5:29 PM while maintaining a heavy police presence. |
| October 26 2021 | Yukon Premier Sandy Silver publicly condemned the murders that afternoon. |
| August 16 2021 | Lesley Brown begins her term as president and vice-chancellor. |
| July 1 2021 | Mike DeGagné begins his term as president and vice-chancellor. |
| June 23 2021 | Lesley Brown is announced as the next president and vice-chancellor of Yukon University. |
| January 2021 | Karen Barnes is named president emerita by the Board of Governors, becoming the first president emerita of Yukon University. |
| November 17 2020 | Jamena James Allen is officially installed as chancellor in a small, physically distanced ceremony. |
| October 6 2020 | Jamena James Allen is announced as the new chancellor of the university. |
| June 30 2020 | Karen Barnes steps down from her position as president and vice-chancellor. |
| May 2020 | Planned commemoration events for university reorganization were cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic safety measures. |
| February 20 2020 | Legislation establishing Yukon University went into effect, creating a new bicameral governance structure with a board of governors and university senate. |
| 2019 | The Yukon Bureau of Statistics estimated Mayo's population had increased to 496 residents. |
| November 2019 | The Yukon University Act was passed, initiating the reorganization into a post-secondary university. |
| 2018 | Created its first degree program specialized for the territory, a Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous governance. |
| 2016 | Mayo recorded a population of 200 residents according to the census. |
| 2016 | Admitted as a member of the BC Association of Institutes and Universities. |
| 2011 | Efforts began with the Government of Yukon to reorganize the institution into a university. |
| July 1 2011 | Karen Barnes begins her role as president and vice-chancellor of Yukon College. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Yukon (electoral district), 2021 Faro, Yukon shootings, Forty Mile, Yukon, Yukon Federation of Labour, Yukon University, Mayo, Yukon & List of municipalities in Yukon, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.