“He wasn’t hiding or anything — he had no shame in his game!” Those are the words of Kelsi Camsell of Behchoko, one of the latest Northerners to spot what she is sure was the elusive nàhgą, or Bushman, at Chan Lake on July 14. She and her parents were making a pit-stop on their
Culture in Yellowknife in the 1970s boiled down to the recitals put on by the students of our two local piano teachers, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas staged by the Singing North, whatever the junior and senior high schools were able to cobble together and Max Ferguson on the radio. We loved Max Ferguson. We got
If you were to jump into one of the Fort Smith Paddling Club’s older vessels, you might spot a faded sticker somewhere on it that reads, NO DAM ON THE SLAVE! These days, the paddling club’s boats are busy, taking locals and visitors alike out to the Playground, Rollercoaster, Molly’s Nipple or any of the
It’s still too soon to tell how bottom-line successful this year’s back-from-the-brink festival was. But judging from the bustling crowds and epic beer-garden line-ups, it certainly looked like all the hard work paid off. Here’s a selection of gorgeous images taken by Angela Gzowski during the fest’s two days of sun, music and people: The
Above the mesmerizing, almost otherworldly, black and white photo, the short, vague caption reads: Two young eagles with dene woman, 1956 She is unnamed, glaring into the camera, both fiercely mothering and yet guarded by the hovering eaglets perched before her like two sleek gargoyles, thickly taloned despite their youthfulness. CREDIT: NWT Archives/Henry Busse fonds/N-1979-052:
On Friday evening a swift-moving forest fire jumped a fire break near Namushka Lodge, roughly 50 km east of Yellowknife, and ripped through the property, reducing the the 34-year-old business to ashes. Photos posted by the lodge on social media show charred remains of buildings, the twisted scrap metal of sidings and appliances, even patches
You can’t catch’em all… Unless you have endless hours of your day to devote to running around Yellowknife, through every park and past every piece of public art. If you’re not willing to go far, you’ll just keep stumbling into Rattata, the equivalent of an annoying rat, over and over again. Pokémon Go – an
This article is free to read, thanks to support from the GNWT’s Department of Health and Social Services: With no residential treatment centres in the NWT (the territorial government says referring patients to southern clinics makes more sense), Devin Hinchey’s rehab took place at the Edgewood facility in Nanaimo, BC. Devin has been sober for more
Beyond the Multiplex, where most of Yellowknife actually lives, is a world to itself
Thirty years ago, Vancouver invited the world to its party… and the world came. The occasion was Vancouver’s 100th birthday. The party was the World Exposition on Transportation and Communications, known as Expo 86. Over 22 million visitors came to the celebration, and about 1.5 million of them were lured into a building designed to
Gold-seeking attention turned to the volcanic belt on Yellowknife Bay’s western shore in 1936. By breakup, it was staked near solid. Burwash Mine employees were responsible for many of these claims, including Thomas Payne, the prospector that sustained Yellowknife’s reputation as a gold rush region. Every story of a new mining camp has a character
Talk chicken to a northerner and chances are they’ll assume you’re talking spruce grouse…and they’ll probably start to get hungry. But these days, Yellowknifers are more often referring to their downy Buff Orpingtons or their cold-resistant Partridge Chanteclers when talk turns fowl. The hearty heritage breeds of domestic hens, known for their egg-laying bounties, have
It started small. In the early afternoon of Thursday, June 23, a Dominion Diamond Corporation press release noted that there’d been a “morning fire” during a planned outage at around 7 am. The mine’s incident management team had managed the incident. Its emergency response team had responded. No one was hurt. A few days later,
You’re sunburned, riddled with mosquito bites and your shoulders can’t paddle another kilometre — this doesn’t mean you can’t get a little gourmet game going on at the end of the day. Fire, tinfoil, a skillet (maybe don’t try this one on a 20-day trip up the Coppermine), and voilà, you have tartiflette! Ok, perhaps
This article is free to read, thanks to support from the GNWT’s Department of Health and Social Services: “Keep moving forward. If you stop, you’re going to run for the hills.” Devin Hinchey, 19 years old, walked through the doors of Nanaimo’s Edgewood rehab centre with his hands in the air. Surrender. A day earlier,