Yellowknife travel guide

Top 6 sights in Yellowknife

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   Buffalo Airways

   A family airline founded at Yellowknife in 1970, flying propeller aircraft including DC-3s on charter, cargo and firefighting work across the north. A television series about it made the fleet unexpectedly famous.

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   Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre

   The museum and archives of the Northwest Territories, on a hill above Frame Lake in Yellowknife. Its subject is the Dene, Inuvialuit and Métis of the north, together with the bush-flying and mining history that opened the territory to outsiders.

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   Tibbitt Lake

   A lake 69.2 kilometres east of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, at the northern end of the Ingraham Trail. In winter an ice road runs from here to Contwoyto Lake in Nunavut, the only overland route into that territory.

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   Frame Lake

   A freshwater lake of eighty-four hectares between the centre of Yellowknife and its residential districts. The Frame Lake Trail runs around it, and the city hall and the territorial legislature stand on its shore.

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   Fred Henne Territorial Park

   A territorial park on Long Lake near Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is one of thirty-four parks administered under the Territorial Parks Act of 1988 and is the terminus of the Frontier Trail and the Cameron Falls Trail.

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   The Gold Range

   A hotel and bar on 50th Street in Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. It is known across the Canadian Arctic and was built on the site of the Cave restaurant, which burned in 1956.

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