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Article: YELLOWKNIFE; The capital of the Northwest Territories has moved fast since its founding in 1934. It's still surrounded by wilderness, but it's hardly a frontier outpost. It's got a short past, a young population and a future that literally sparkles.(TRAVEL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2002
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Byline: Catherine Watson; Staff Writer
Coming into Yellowknife last June, my plane streaked low across a raw landscape - scabs of dark rock, patches of scrubby spruce and muskeg, then vast blue water, then a glistening sheet of white.
Ice? Could that be?
Sure enough: ice floes in Great Slave Lake, only four days before the summer solstice.
It made Minnesota seem tropical, and for that instant, Yellowknife was as exotically remote as I'd hoped. Then we landed, and the real Yellowknife came as a shock.
The name had conjured up a log-cabin boom town on the edge of nowhere, full of husky dogs, people perpetually in parkas and a ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Yellowknife (NWT)
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... ... WATT Canadian Encyclopedia 01-01-2002 Yellowknife (NWT) Author: ERIK WATT Yellowknife, NWT, City, pop 17 275 ... SLAVE LAKE . Due to its northerly location, Yellowknife is the Canadian city with the most hours ...
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