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THE COLLECTION, IN PERSPECTIVE
Patterns behind the names.
Explore when names were recorded, who gave them, and whose stories they carry.
Choose a chart entry to read the source records behind the numbers.
Every chart uses the filters above. Counts refer to source records, including retained duplicates. People and roles use the original source labels.
WHEN NAMES ENTER THE ACCOUNT
The naming timeline
These are naming dates in the extracted Named-When field, not birth dates, death dates, or verified official approval dates. Ranges and qualified dates are not assigned to a year.
BEHIND THE NUMBERS
NAMING AGENCY
Who gave the names?
Includes individuals, organizations, collective actors, and “Local usage”. Each complete cell value is one label.
THE SUBJECTS OF NAMES
Who is remembered?
Person-type is the source classification. Names may represent more than one person; spelling variants remain separate. “All” also includes places, objects, and other referents.
LIVES & WORK
Professions & roles
Source cells mix professions, ranks, employers, and multiple roles. Labels such as “Prospector” and “Trapper and prospector” are counted separately; GSC and HBC are affiliations.
REMEMBRANCE IN THE LANDSCAPE
War dead & wartime service
Circumstances reported by Coutts
A provisional, source-reviewed subset of namesakes reported killed, missing/presumed dead, or dying in wartime service or from war wounds. Includes accidents and illness. Naming can precede death. This is not an official casualty register or a complete count.
WHAT THE SOURCE CAN TELL US
Coverage & gaps
Choose a segment to inspect its records. “Recorded” means a supplied value, not independently verified information. Unknown and not applicable stay distinct.
SOURCES & INTERPRETATION
Keep the evidence in view.
A historical source, not a census
The collection reflects Coutts’ selection, accounts, and the extraction work. It cannot measure the full history or prevalence of Yukon naming, Indigenous knowledge, or current official names. An apparent surge can reflect source coverage as well as naming activity.
Original source fields are unchanged. Each chart’s record list links to the existing detail view, with the narrative, workbook row, available document paragraph, and source provenance.
How the counts work
One source row contributes once to each relevant category. Duplicate rows are retained. Exact cell labels are not an authority file of distinct people. Unknown, blank, and N/A values do not enter people or role rankings; the coverage chart shows them separately.
The timeline only plots a single unqualified four-digit year. The protocol’s “Prehistoric” value is shown as “Traditional / no historic date”, never converted into a year.
War classifications are a separate derived layer, reviewed against narrative text for this prototype. Each includes a source-text fingerprint and excerpt. Service-era war assignments may rely on the dated service context; undated conflicts remain unspecified. Uncertain collective claims are excluded from the main total. These annotations need human historical validation before publication.