Article: Riding the wild river north; Canada's Mackenzie River flows north to the the Arctic Ocean through a vast and pristine wilderness. It's an unlikely place for a pleasure cruise, but one small passenger boat makes the eye-opening journey each summer.(TRAVEL)(Road less traveled)

Byline: Catherine Watson; Staff Writer

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She wasn't much to look at, tied off at the dock in Yellowknife just past the floatplanes: a small, no-nonsense rectangle of blue and white sheet metal, boxy, blunt-bowed, more tow boat than clipper ship.

But the sturdy little Norweta - her name derives from "Northwest" - wasn't built to be lovely. She was built to work. Her "wow" factor comes from where she goes.

Each summer, the Norweta offers the continent's most unusual cruise, taking a handful of passengers the length of the great Mackenzie River - more than 1,000 miles from the river's birthplace in Great Slave Lake north to ...

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