Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ragged Ass Road is a short unpaved residential street in the Old Town section of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Its name started as a joke in 1970 by resident Lou Rocher, who owned much of the property along it at the time, and his friends. At the time the street had been known as "Privy Road" due to the large number of outhouses ...
Diesel tug (23 m (75 ft) long, 7.0 m (23 ft) wide, 1.5 m (5 ft) draft, 800 hp (600 kW)), built by Yarrows in Esquimalt, used by the Yellowknife Transportation Company on the Mackenzie River/Great Slave Lake routes from 1946 to October 1956 when it sank 40 km (25 mi) miles south of Yellowknife in a storm. The crew was rescued by another ship.
With vacant properties all over Yellowknife, the federal government decided it was time to build a central headquarters for the many agencies that had been scattered across downtown for decades. At the end of 2001, it bought the property on Franklin between 51st and 52nd for just under CDN$ 2 million, [ 26 ] then occupied by a building that had ...
The area around the community is the historic and traditional home of the Yellowknives Dene, the land's First Nations residents. Dettah was the first formal settlement in the area, which was founded by the Yellowknives in the 1930s and located on a point of land on the east side of Yellowknife Bay. [17]
Giant Mine was within the Kam Group, a part of the Yellowknife greenstone belt. Gold was discovered on the property and mineral claims staked in 1935 by Johnny Baker, but the true extent of the gold deposits was not known until 1944, when a massive gold-bearing shear zone was uncovered beneath the drift-filled Baker Creek Valley.
Echaot'l Koe; people from the land of the giants Hamlet [12] Yes Dehcho [12] Region 4: 500 −6.7% Fort McPherson: Teet'lit Zhen; at the head of the waters place Hamlet [13] Yes Inuvik [13] Region 1: 700 −11.6%
AOL Mail welcomes Verizon customers to our safe and delightful email experience!
The Ekati Diamond Mine, often simply called Ekati, is Canada's first surface and underground diamond mine [1] and is owned by Burgundy Diamond Mines.It is located 310 km (190 mi) north-east of Yellowknife, [2] Northwest Territories, and about 200 km (120 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, near Lac de Gras.