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The Yellowknife settlement is considered to have been founded in 1934, [2] after gold was found in the area, although commercial activity in the present-day waterfront area did not begin until 1936. Yellowknife quickly became the centre of economic activity in the NWT, and was named the capital of the Northwest Territories in 1967.
The Old Stope Association, a non-profit heritage society, was responsible for its operation in the 1970s–1980s, and today it is managed by the Wildcat Cafe Advisory Committee. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] In 1992, the cabin was declared a heritage site as an important old building in Yellowknife and the city took ownership. [ 2 ]
With government funding, the Dene village of Ndilǫ was developed in the mid 1950s on the tip of Latham Island (the northern point of Yellowknife's Old Town). The Yellowknives Dene First Nation was formed in 1991 (formerly known as Yellowknife B Band) following the collapse of a territorial-wide comprehensive land claim negotiation. They ...
Tufa found in Nahanni National Park. The Nahanni National Park Reserve, sometimes known as "Headless Valley" or "Valley of The Headless Men" (after a series of unsolved historical deaths in the park), in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada (approximately 500 km (311 mi) west of Yellowknife), [4] protects a portion of the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region.
Courtyard of the ice castle, 2014. The first Snowking castle was built in 1996. [2] From humble beginnings in Yellowknife's Woodyard neighbourhood, where the castle was little more than tunnels in snowbanks augmented by blocks of snow cut from wind-formed snow drifts, the Snowking's Winter Festival has grown into a month-long event based around a large castle built of snow.
USA TODAY had a chance to witness the phenomenon firsthand on a trip to Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories, organized for journalists by Expedia, and the wispy green light in the sky ...
^B 2012 figure based on Yellowknife = 100 [5] Łutselkʼe ( / ˈ l ʊ t s ə l k eɪ / , Dëne Sųłıné Yatıé : [ɬutsʰɛɮk'ɛ] ; "place of the łutsel ", the cisco , [ 6 ] a type of small fish), also spelt Łutsël Kʼé , is a "designated authority" [ 7 ] in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories , Canada.
Located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, the PWNHC acquires and manages objects and archival materials that represent the cultures and history of the Northwest Territories (NWT), plays a primary role in documenting and providing information about the cultures and history of the NWT, and provides a professional museum, archives and ...