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Yellowknife’s Old Town
blanketed in snow on a
winter’s evening

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YELLOWKNIFE Prince of Wales
Northern Heritage
Centre
k n Northern Frontier Visitors Association, 4–4807 ⌂ 4750 48th St #10:30am–

49th St ∑ visityellowknife.com 5pm daily ∑ pwnhc.ca
Originally an Aboriginal Dene settlement, Yellowknife This local museum tells the
is named after the yellow-bladed copper hunting story of the land, people and
knives used by its first residents. The Hudson’s Bay history of the Northwest
Company closed its outpost here in 1823 due to Territories. Displays feature
failing profits, but the Old Town thrived again with typically northern artifacts,
such as mooseskin boats,
gold mining in the 1930s, and again after 1945. mammoth tusks, and items Cameron Falls Trail Wildcat
With improved road communications, the city became illustrating the history of 30 miles (48 km) Floatplane Café Bayside
the regional capital of the Northwest Territories in flying in the north. Changing M O Y L E D R I V E base B&B
1967. Growing bureaucratic needs and three diamond exhibits explain life in the I N G R A H A M T R A I L Back WILEY ROAD INGRAHAM DRIVE MCDONALD DRIVE
mines 186 miles (300 km) north of Yellowknife have subarctic and Beaufort N I V E N D R I V E Bay
helped it continue to flourish. Delta regions.
Old Town
DRISCOLL RD
responsibility, in the manner H E ANE R DR I V E BOFFA DR
1 ' practiced by Aboriginals. 3 Jolliffe
Legislative Assembly Decorated with paintings and Old Town Niven McAVOY RD Island
Lake
Inuit art, the chamber also Just half a mile (1 km) north
⌂ Frame Lake # For tours Frame
when council is not in features a large polar bear rug. of downtown, the Old Town Lake N I V E N D R I V E
The official public government is situated on an island and
session ∑ assembly.gov.
49 TH AV ENU E
nt.ca rooms can viewed on free a rocky peninsula on Great
guided tours when the council Slave Lake. By 1947, Yellowknife Legislative F R A N K L I N A V E N U E ( 5 0 T H A V E N U E )
Rotary
Built in 1993, this headquarters is not in session. had outgrown itself, and the Assembly I N G R A H A M T R A I L Centennial
of local government has a tall The architects of the building New Town rose from the 44TH ST Park
domed roof. Signifying equal were careful not to disrupt the sandy plain southward. 45TH ST
rights for all ethnic groups, surrounding natural landscape, An unusual community thrives 49T H AVE 46TH AVE S C H O O L D R A W A V E N U E Yellowknife
the government chamber is and the Capital Site includes in the Old Town, many living in 47TH ST Bay
the only one of its kind in the an expansive peat bog popu­ older clapboard buildings, log Prince of Wales 4 8T H ST DOWNTOWN
country, with a large oval table lated with native wildflowers, cabins and makeshift shacks Northern Heritage 49TH ST
Centre
to give all delegates equal grasses, birds and waterfowl. and houseboats. A good City Hall VETERANS ME M O RIAL DRIVE 46TH ST 52ND AVEN UE 44T H S T REET 0 meters 400 N
50TH ST
364 52ND ST 51ST ST 50T H AVEN U E 51ST AVE 0 yards 400
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