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Motor boat built in 1947 by Cliff Richardon Boat Works, and used by the Government of Canada on Great Slave Lake 1948–1961 with home ports in Fort Smith/Fort Fitzgerald, Slave River. It was used by the game warden and other federal officials in management and patrols of the Slave River and Great Slave Lake areas until its retirement in 1961.
Launch of the Radium Yellowknife at Waterways Alberta. The Radium Yellowknife is a Canadian tugboat. [1] Like other vessels built for service on the Mackenzie River, its tributaries, and Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, she was first built in a shipyard in Vancouver, British Columbia, then disassembled and shipped by rail to Waterways ...
Great Slave Lake [1] [a] is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at 614 m (2,014 ft), [2] and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area.
Waterways is on the Clearwater River, not far upstream from where the river empties into Lake Athabasca. The waters of Lake Athabasca flow into Great Slave Lake down the Slave River, and then down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. A 16-mile series of large rapids at Fort Smith, NWT, on the Slave River, required a long portage. Most of ...
He said the vessel was suddenly frozen in, on Great Slave Lake, for over a week, due to a sudden cold snap at the beginning of the shipping season in 1958. In 1967 the boat was retired. Currently she is on display outside the Northern Life Museum in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. [10] [11] The Radium King was restored, and turned into a museum.
The Wrigley was a wooden steamship operated by the Hudson's Bay Company on the Mackenzie River, and its tributaries, including the Peel River, Great Slave Lake, and the lower reaches of the Slave River. [1] She was built on the Slave River, downstream of the very large rapids between Fort Smith and Fitzgerald, Alberta, in 1885. [1]
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) maintains a number of major bases and operating stations on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as in the St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes and major navigable inland waterways such as Lake of the Woods, Lake Winnipeg, and Great Slave Lake/Mackenzie River.
Ice Lake Rebels is an American reality TV show about houseboat dwellers in Great Slave Lake. [1]It aired on Animal Planet [2] for two seasons, from 2014 to 2016. [3] The show was produced by Critical Content of Los Angeles, [4] and aired on Animal Planet. [5]