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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Destruction Bay

Destruction Bay is a small community on the Alaska Highway (historical mile 1083) in Canada's Yukon on Kluane Lake.

Populated mostly by non-aboriginal residents, community residents provide Yukon government services to residents in the area (school, highway maintenance), including nearby Burwash Landing and some tourism-related businesses along the Alaska Highway. The name is derived from the wind blowing down structures erected by the military during highway construction in 1942–43.

The community has a one-room school serving kindergarten through grade eight.

Demographics

Federal census population history of Destruction Bay
YearPop.±%
198149—    
198648−2.0%
199132−33.3%
199634+6.2%
200143+26.5%
200655+27.9%
201135−36.4%
201655+57.1%
202140−27.3%
Source: Statistics Canada

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Destruction Bay had a population of 40 living in 16 of its 32 total private dwellings, a change of -27.3% from its 2016 population of 55. With a land area of 13.9 km (5.4 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.9/km (7.5/sq mi) in 2021.