Why "Rabbit's Foot Canyon" anyway??

This is a portion of a map in the Yukon Archives (#H12), entitled "Town of Whitehorse, and Adjacent Copper Belt", dated June 1902, compiled by H G Dickson, D.L.S. The dark blue lines are MacIntyre Creek and Porter Creek. The former is easily seen today, and marked with a sign(at the Fish Lake Road). However, aside from the fact that Porter Creek is somewhere in the weeds along the west side of the Rabbit's Foot Canyon road, coming out on the east side of the road at the Centennial cutoff... well, maybe a lot has happened since 1902?? Or maybe some of you readers know?

A very small Whitehorse is included on this map, but for reasons of space and the Blog format, your wise Blogress has cut it off in favour of presenting a closeup view of the interesting names given to the various claims. One thing is impressive, as I meander through this dry and dusty paperwork: those guys were so OPTIMISTIC back then: they visualized a huge manufacturing city, one that would be built on the wealth generated by copper ore, and their own energy.

Anyway, note the "Rabbit's Foot" Claim, handily encircled by photoshop. And more about this later....