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unusual facts about Yellowknife, Northwest Territories



2012 NWT/Yukon Scotties Tournament of Hearts

Kerry Galusha and her team from Yellowknife won the tiebreaker final, and the right to represent Yukon/Northwest Territories, at the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Red Deer, Alberta, where Galusha would finish round robin with a 4-7 record.

Aaron Doering

These expeditions have taken him across many regions of the circumpolar Arctic, including the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada; Fennoscandia; Greenland; Chukotka in Russia; and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, USA.

Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy

This was followed by the second consultative meeting in Yellowknife, Canada in April 1990 where a third ad hoc group was established to develop the strategy.

Avalon Rare Metals

Avalon’s principal assets are its 100% owned Nechalacho Project (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories), Separation Rapids (near Minaki, Ontario), East Kemptville, Nova Scotia, Miramichi (New Brunswick), Lilypad Lakes (near Ignace, Ontario), Warren Township (Ontario) and Spor Mountain (near Delta, Utah).

Betula neoalaskana

Its range covers most of interior Alaska, and extends from the southern Brooks Range to the Chugach Range in Alaska, including the Turnagain Arm and northern half of the Kenai Peninsula, easterward from Norton Sound into western Ontario, and north to Northwest Territories and southern Nunavut.

Boreal chorus frog

The boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata) is a species of chorus frog native to Canada from the west of Lake Superior to western Alberta and north to the Northwest Territories.

Carrothers Commission

Yellowknife was selected as the territorial capital as a result.

Churchill Craton

In comparison, drilling in the Eastern Arctic is too remote compared to the Slave Craton, which is serviced by the fully developed infrastructure of Yellowknife.

Deer Creek Public Schools

Following a pattern set during the settling of the Northwest Territories in 1787, the Organic Act dedicated section No. 16 for the support of public schools.

Deh Cho Bridge

No vehicles could cross during this period, and supplies for Yellowknife and other highway communities north of the river had to be relayed across by helicopter, sent by air freight, or wait until ferry operations begin.

Dustin Milligan

Milligan was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the son of Jean Wallace, a former Yellowknife city councillor, and Brian Milligan.

Echo Bay Mines

The Echo Bay Mines Limited company was organized in 1964 to develop a silver deposit at Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, which became known as the Echo Bay Mine.

Ed Lucero

He is known for making "first descents", including the former record 105 foot (32 M) Alexandra Falls in Canada's Northwest Territories, Guadelupe Falls in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, and Smith Falls in Idaho.

Enterprise, Northwest Territories

Enterprise is at an important junction of the Mackenzie Highway and the road to Yellowknife and was established when two service stations were built to take advantage of traffic along these highways.

Fort Simpson

Pope John Paul II attempted to visit the community in September 1984 as part of his Canadian tour, but was prevented from landing due to fog; in an address over the radio from Yellowknife, he promised to visit in the future.

George Tuccaro

A member of the Mikisew Cree First Nation, Tuccaro began a career in broadcasting in 1971, when he became an Announcer-Operator with CBC North Radio in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Glenelg, Mars

The location was named Glenelg by NASA scientists for two reasons: all features in the immediate vicinity were given names associated with Yellowknife in northern Canada, and Glenelg is the name of a geological feature there.

Globemaster Air Cargo

Globemaster Air Cargo operated freight services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Edmonton, Fort Nelson, Fort McMurray, Fort St John, Grand Prairie, Inuvik and Yellowknife.

Harry Camsell K-3 School

Harry Camsell K-3 School is a school located in Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada providing public education from kindergarten to grade 3.

Inuvialuk language

Inuvialuktun is spoken by the Inuit of the Mackenzie River delta in the Northwest Territories, Banks Island, part of Victoria Island and the Arctic Ocean coast of the Northwest Territories – the lands of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.

Keith Peterson

Peterson attended F.H. Collins Secondary school in Whitehorse and graduated from Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Land Force Western Area

The units forming the brigade group are from the province of Alberta, as well as a company based out of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Lutselk'e

Although not accessible by road there is an airport, Lutselk'e Airport, with scheduled services from Yellowknife and an annual sealift is provided by Northern Transportation Company Limited from Hay River in the summer.

Mad Bomber Society

Mad Bomber Society has played at major music events across Canada including the 2003 Stage 13 in Camrose, North County Fair in Alberta, and Folk on the Rocks Festival in Yellowknife, which was broadcast by CBC Radio North; the 2002 Salmon Arm Roots'n'Blues Fest; and the 2001 Victoria Ska Fest and North County Fair.

Mid-Continental Canadian forests

This ecoregion extends from south of the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories through most of northeastern Alberta, central Saskatchewan and parts of west-central Manitoba and consists of three main areas: the Slave River basin in northeastern Alberta, the lowlands of the northern Manitoba plain, and the uplands south of the Canadian Shield from north-central Alberta to southwestern Manitoba.

Mike Botha

Mike Botha is a master diamond cutter, with close to four decades in the profession, his training and subsequent career began in South Africa and has led him to Mauritius, Russia and Canada – from Vancouver to the Northwest Territories to Saskatchewan.

Nahani

Nahani (Nahane, Nahanni) is an Athapaskan word used to designate native groups located in British Columbia, Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territories between the upper Liard River and the 64th parallel north latitude.

NNSL

Northern News Services, a news company based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories Legislative Building

It was designed by Ferguson Simek Clark/Pin Matthews (of Yellowknife) in association with Matsuzaki Wright Architects Inc. (of Vancouver), and landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander.

Nuclear industry in Canada

Originally owned by the gold prospector Gilbert Labine, Eldorado began to prospect for pitchblende ore in 1929 and set up the Port Radium mine in the Northwest Territories four years later.

Oldest dated rocks

The Acasta Gneiss in the Canadian Shield in the Northwest Territories, Canada is composed of the Archaean igneous and gneissic cores of ancient mountain chains that have been exposed in a glacial peneplain.

Operation Bulldog

Operation Bulldog III, a military exercise during the Cold War in Yellowknife, NWT

Princess Alexandra Middle School

Princess Alexandra School is a school located in Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada providing public education for students in grades 4 through 7.

Resolute Bay Airport

On August 20, 2011, First Air Flight 6560, a Boeing 737-200 charter flight transporting fifteen (15) people from Yellowknife, crashed near the airport.

Salix pulchra

It is native to northern North America, where it occurs in Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.

Scaly dragonfish

On the other side of the Atlantic it is found from the Northwest Territories of Canada to Argentina.

Scopula frigidaria

It is found from Fennoscandia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and in northern North America, where it occurs across the boreal forest region, from Alaska across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to Newfoundland, and in the mountains south to southern Wisconsin, Alberta and British Columbia.

Taamusi Qumaq

After spending some time to the establishment of Rankin Inlet in the Northwest Territories, he returned to Puvirnituq in 1960 and founded its first village council and acted as its chair from 1962 to 1968.

The Gold Range

In Kathy Reichs' 2012 novel Bones Are Forever, the Gold Range is mentioned during a trip to Yellowknife.

The Lesser Blessed

Written and directed by Anita Doron based on the novel of the same name by Richard Van Camp, the film stars Joel Evans as Larry Sole, a young Tłı̨chǫ teenager living in the Northwest Territories.

Titus Allooloo

Allooloo became part owner of a tourism company Narwhal Adventure Training and Tours in Yellowknife.

William Lafferty

William "Bill" Lafferty (born: 1931 - died: 2003) was a former politician, Canadian Forces officer and news paper columnist from Northwest Territories, Canada.


see also

Paulette

Paulette Caveat - a caveat filed in 1973 by a group of Dene chiefs at the land titles office in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to gain a legal interest in 400,000 square miles of land in northern Canada