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Today, Yellowknife is primarily a government town and a service centre for the diamond mines. On 1 April 1999, its purview as capital of the NWT was reduced when the territory of Nunavut was split from the NWT. As a result, jurisdiction for that region of Canada was transferred to the new capital city of Iqaluit. Consequently, Yellowknife lost ...
The Yellowknife City Council is the governing body of the city of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. The council consists of a mayor and eight councillors originally elected to three year terms, but after a referendum in 2018 this has now been changed to four year terms. [1] The current mayor of Yellowknife is Rebecca Alty. [2]
The Greenstone Building, officially the Greenstone Government of Canada Building, [1] and sometimes known as the Greenstone Government Building, [9] is located on Franklin (50th) Avenue in downtown Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is a four-storey building faced in stone, completed and opened in 2005.
The Northwest Territories government moved to Fort Livingstone in 1876. Legislative sessions were held inside the Swan River Barracks which operated and housed the North-West Mounted Police. The Barracks were built two years earlier in 1874, and destroyed by a wild fire long after the Government left in 1884. [2]
The Yellowknives Dene First Nation is a band government in the Northwest Territories. [4] It represents the Yellowknives people, the namesake of the territorial capital Yellowknife . Its membership primarily resides in two communities: Ndilǫ , bordering the City of Yellowknife at the tip of Latham Island, and Dettah , separated from the city ...
Yellowknife Airport (IATA: YZF, ICAO: CYZF) is located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. The airport is part of the National Airports System, and is operated by the Government of the Northwest Territories. The airport has regular scheduled passenger service and a number of freight services. In 2007, the terminal handled 527,000 ...
This is a list of mayors of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada [1] This article uses bare URLs , which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot . Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style.
Yellowknife Centre [1] is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is one of seven districts that ...