Yukon Register of Historic PlacesYRHP

Key elements which contribute to the heritage value of this site include:

- the completeness of the vessel including its hull, superstructure, gold processing facilities and ancillary equipment;

- the systems associated with the vessel’s structure and function as mining equipment;

- its functional design and disposition of space;

- its materials such as the wooden hull and metal equipment;

- those structural components developed specifically for use in northern dredging, including hardened bucket lips, heating systems (steam boilers and electric heaters) and double walls,

- its shore deadmen and related cable system,

- its setting in the field of dredging activity near Bonanza Creek,

- its viewplanes to gold field tailings and to Bonanza Creek,

- its linkage to other sites and landscape features related to corporate mining – the Bear Creek camp site, the power plant, other dredge sites, roads, power and telephone line systems.