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History Of Yellowknife
This timeline of Yellowknife history summarises key events in the history of Yellowknife, a city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. 19th century *1823 – Fur trading post called 'Old Fort Providence' located near Yellowknife Bay is closed by the Hudson's Bay Company. *1897 – Klondike Gold Rush started. *1898 – A Klondike, Yukon, Klondike-bound prospector, E.A. Blakeney, made the first discovery of gold in the Yellowknife Bay area. The discovery was viewed as unimportant in those days because of the Klondike Gold Rush and because Great Slave Lake was too far away to attract attention.Price, Ray (1967). ''Yellowknife''. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates. p. 22. 20th century *1929 – In the late 1920s, aircraft were first used to explore Canada's Arctic regions. Yellowknife Bay is a fuel cache point for aerial exploration to the arctic coastline. *1930 – By the 1930s First Nations in Canada, First Nations people had a settlement on a point of land on the east side o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellowknife
Yellowknife is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River. Yellowknife and its surrounding water bodies were named after a local Dene tribe, who were known as the "Copper Indians" or "Yellowknife Indians", today incorporated as the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. They traded tools made from copper deposits near the Arctic Coast. Modern Yellowknives members can be found in city and in the adjoining, primarily Indigenous communities of Ndilǫ and Dettah. The city's population was 20,340 per the 2021 Canadian census. Of the eleven official languages of the Northwest Territories, five are spoken in significant numbers in Yellowknife: Chipewyan language, Dene Suline, Dogrib language, Dogrib, Slavey language, South and North Slavey, English, and French. In the Dogrib language, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
