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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 ...
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.
The biggest names in Tłı̨chǫ history are Edzo, Bruneau, and Monfwi. All men were Dogrib chiefs at important periods in their cultural history; Edzo signed the peace pact with the Yellowknives Dene in the 1820s, Jimmy Bruneau was a long-standing chief in the 20th century, and Monfwi signed Treaty 11 with the Canadian Government in 1921 and ...
Highway 4 in Yellowknife: Yellowknife Highway 1960: current Also known as the Great Slave Highway Highway 5: 267.0: 165.9 Highway 2 near Hay River: Highway 48 at Alberta border in Fort Smith: Fort Smith Highway 1966: current Passes through Wood Buffalo National Park: Highway 7: 254.1: 157.9 Highway 77 at British Columbia border south of Fort Liard
It is on the east side of 50th Avenue, often called Franklin Avenue, a southwest–northeast thoroughfare, four lanes wide at that point, which is Yellowknife's main street. It occupies the western end of a rectangular block between 51st and 52nd streets on the north and south; 52nd Avenue is the next street to the east. [17]
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This private winter road was once a way for trucks to drive to Nunavut from Yellowknife. The private winter road services a number of mines and worker lodgings in the region. The entire road is 605 km (376 mi) and is the world's longest heavy haul ice road. It is open between February and March each year.
Yellowknife South This page was last edited on 9 August 2024, at 19:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...