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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.
A large wildfire burned through Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada and its surrounding area from May 14 to 16, 2011.The conflagration, which originated 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) outside of town as a forest fire, was quickly pushed past fire barriers designed to protect the town by 100-kilometre-per-hour (60 mph) winds.
Slave Lake is a town in northern Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124. It is approximately 255 km (158 mi) northwest of Edmonton . It is located on the southeast shore of Lesser Slave Lake at the junction of Highway 2 and Highway 88 .
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.
Yellowknife [a] is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
It caught fire and sank on Great Slave Lake and was replaced by the Speed II which ironically later suffered the same fate. Speed II: Gasoline schooner (14 m (45 ft) long) operated by Northern Traders Company on Great Slave Lake c. 1927, and later by Northern Waterways Limited on Great Bear Lake 1932–1933. It caught fire and sank on Great ...
It is a settlement corporation in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories. The community is situated at the mouth of the Slave River, on the shore of Great Slave Lake, Deninu K'ue or Dene Nu Kwen are/were called Chipewyan (Denesuline) and Yellowknives, which came to Fort Resolution to trade their furs. [8]
Rocher River is an abandoned community in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community was situated near the mouth of the Taltson River (aka Rocher River, or Roche River), which drains into Great Slave Lake. Dene trading chief Pierre Snuff built the first cabins in this area in the early 20th century, on what is ...