dawson

noun

1. Sir John William,1820–99, Canadian geologist and educator.
2. William Levi,1899–1990, U.S. composer and conductor.
3. a town in NW Canada, at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers: former capital of the Yukon Territory.

noun

1. a town in NW Canada, in the Yukon on the Yukon River: a boom town during the Klondike gold rush (at its height in 1899). Pop: 1251 (2001)