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Norman Wells (Slavey language: Tłegǫ́hłı̨ [t͡ɬʰɛkṍhɬĩ] "where there is oil") is a town located in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories, Canada. The town, which hosts the Sahtu Regional office, is situated on the north side of the Mackenzie River and provides a view down the valley of the Franklin and Richardson mountains.
Diesel tug (18.7 m (61.5 ft) long, 5.2 m (17 ft) wide, 2.6 m (8.5 ft) draft) built by Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company at Waterways, Alberta, in 1938 and used on the Slave/Mackenzie River routes for many years, first by Cominco, and then by the Hudson's Bay Company (1938-c.1946), and the Northern Transportation Company Limited on Great ...
North-Wright Airways or North Wright Air is an airline based in Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada. It operates commuter services to several communities in the Northwest Territories as well as charter services. Their main base is Norman Wells Airport and they also operate the Norman Wells Water Aerodrome which is used for floatplane ...
The settlement was established as a North West Company fur trading outpost in 1804 (or 1805). [6] It was known mainly as Fort Good Hope, but also as Fort Hope and Fort Charles (not the same as the HBC fort from 1686) The outpost was relocated several times from the current site; between 1804 and before 1823 somewhere between Arctic Red River and Peel River (by NWC and HBC) near Tsiigehtchic ...
In 1983, IPL built the Norman Wells pipeline and joined Frontier Pipeline Company. [6] In 1986, through a series of stakes exchanges, IPL gained control of Home Oil and in 1988, it changed its name to Interhome Energy Inc. [6] [9] In 1991, it changed its name to Interprovincial Pipe Line Inc. [9]
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Reassembly of the Radium King, 1937.. Marine Transportation Services [1] (MTS) formerly Northern Transportation Company Limited (NTCL) is a marine transportation company operating primarily in the Mackenzie River watershed of the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta, and the Arctic Ocean using a fleet of diesel tug boats and shallow-draft barges. [2]
Mile Zero of the Canol Road was located at Norman Wells where vehicles drove across the ice in the winter. [1] From the banks of the Mackenzie River (Milepost 4) the road extends 236 miles (380 km) southwest to the Yukon border. The main site of project administration and operations, including a large airfield, was at Camp Canol (Milepost 8). [2]