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Délı̨nę
The Charter Community of Délı̨nę (North Slavey: ) is located in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, on the western shore of Great Bear Lake and is northwest of Yellowknife. Délı̨nę means "where the waters flow", a reference to the headwaters of the Great Bear River, Sahtúdé. It is the only current settlement on the shores of Great Bear Lake, as Fort Confidence was last used in the 1800s and Port Radium closed in 1982. There is no permanent road to the community and access is by Déline Airport (serviced by North-Wright Airways, Déline Water Aerodrome in the summer and ice road in the winter. History According to early records, a trading post was established in this general area as early as 1799 by the North West Company, but it did not last very many years. In 1825, Peter Warren Dease of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) erected an outpost here as the staging area and winter quarters for Sir John Franklin's second Arctic expedition of 1825–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Bear Lake
Great Bear Lake (; ) in the boreal forest of Canada is the largest List of lakes of Canada, lake entirely in Canada (Lake Superior and Lake Huron are larger but straddle the Canada–United States border, Canada–US border), the fourth-largest in North America, and the List of lakes by area, eighth-largest in the world. The lake is in the Northwest Territories, on the Arctic Circle between 65th parallel north, 65 and 67th parallel north, 67 degrees of northern latitude and between 118th meridian west, 118 and 123rd meridian west, 123 degrees western longitude, Height above mean sea level, above sea level. The name originated from the Chipewyan language, Chipewyan word , meaning "grizzly bear-water people". The Sahtu, a Dene people, are named after the lake. Grizzly Bear Mountain, or ''Sahoyue'', on the shore of the lake also comes from Chipewyan, meaning "bear-large hill".Johnson, LThe Great Bear Lake: Its Place in History. Calgary, Alberta: ''Arctic Institute of North Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackenzie River Expedition
The Mackenzie River expedition of 1825–1827 was the second of three Arctic expeditions led by explorer John Franklin and organized by the Royal Navy. Its goal was the exploration of the North American coast between the mouths of the Mackenzie River, Mackenzie and Coppermine River, Coppermine rivers and Bering Strait, in what is now present-day Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Franklin was accompanied by George Back and John Richardson (naturalist), John Richardson, both of whom he had previously collaborated with in the disastrous Coppermine expedition of 1819–1821. Unlike Franklin's previous expedition, this one was largely successful, and resulted in the mapping of more than of new coastline between the Coppermine River and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, an area that until then had remained largely unexplored by Europeans. Background The Northwest Passage, a supposed sea route to the Pacific Ocean by way of the Arctic Ocean, had long been sought by European ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahtu Region
The Sahtu Region is an administrative region in Canada's Northwest Territories. Coterminous with the settlement region described in the 1993 Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement, of the Sahtu is collectively owned by its Indigenous Sahtu (Dene) and Métis inhabitants. Although the region's population is predominantly First Nations, a significant non-Indigenous presence exists in Norman Wells, the regional office, established in 1920 to serve the only producing oilfield in the Canadian Territories. Considered to be of vital strategic importance during World War II in the event of a Japanese invasion of Alaska, the region's petroleum resources were exploited by the United States Army with the Canol Project, but the pipeline never became necessary and ultimately operated for less than one year. Since the abandonment of the Canol project, development within the region has been more limited than in the rest of the territory. Although plans have long existed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Municipalities In The Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is the most populous of Canada's three territories with 41,070 residents as of 2021 and is the second-largest territory in land area at . The Northwest Territories' 24 municipalities cover only of the territory's land mass but are home to of its population. According to the ''Cities, Towns and Villages Act'' (''CTVA''), the ''Hamlets Act'' and the ''Charter Communities Act'' (''CCA''), all of which were enacted in 2003, a municipality is an area within a city, town, village, hamlet or charter community that was established or continued by a legislative order. The ''Tlicho Community Government Act'' (''TCGA''), enacted in 2004, also considers community governments as municipal corporations alongside charter communities, cities, hamlets, towns and villages. Yellowknife is the capital of the Northwest Territories and its only city, while Fort Simpson is its only village. Of the remaining 22 municipalities, three of them are charter communities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Regions Of The Northwest Territories
The Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of the Northwest Territories is subdivided into Administrative division, administrative regions in different ways for various purposes. Administrative regions The Government of the Northwest Territory's Department of Municipal and Community Affairs divides the territory into five regions. Other services have adopted similar divisions for administrative purposes, making these the de facto regions of the territory. These divisions have no government of their own, but the Northwest Territories' government services are decentralized on a regional basis. Some government departments make slight changes to this arrangement. For example, the Health and Social Services Authority groups Fort Resolution with the North Slave Region, and divides South Slave Region into two regions: Hay River and Fort Smith. The Department of Natural Resources uses the same borders, but calls the Inuvik Region "Beaufort Delta". Indigenous governa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Franklin
Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Northern Canada, Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, during the Coppermine expedition of 1819 and the Mackenzie River expedition of 1825, and served as Governor of Tasmania, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1837 to 1843. During Franklin's lost expedition, his third and final expedition, an attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage in 1845, Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island in what is now Nunavut, where he died in June 1847. The icebound ships were abandoned ten months later, and the entire crew died from causes such as starvation, hypothermia, and scurvy. Biography Early life Franklin was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, on , the ninth of twelve children born to Hannah Weekes and Willingham Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Code 867
Area code 867 is the thelephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the three Canadian territories, all of which are in Northern Canada. The area code was created on October 21, 1997, for a new numbering plan area (NPA) established from combining regions that were previously served with area code 403 and area code 819. As the least populated NPA in mainland North America, serving about 130,000 people, it is geographically the largest, with Alaska ( 907) a distant second. The numbering plan area is adjacent to seven provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Quebec) and one U.S. state (Alaska), as well as Greenland and Russia (across the North Pole), more jurisdictions than any other in North America. It is also one of two Canadian area codes that are not part of an overlay numbering plan, the other being 807. The incumbent local exchange carrier for area code 867 is Northwestel, a subsidiary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Radium
Port Radium is a mining area on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. It included the settlement of Cameron Bay as well as the Eldorado (also called Port Radium) and Echo Bay mines. The name Port Radium did not come into use until 1936 and at the time it was in reference to the region as a whole. The Eldorado mine site at LaBine Point adopted the name for its settlement in the 1940s and it has generally stuck. Location Port Radium is situated at on LaBine Point on the McTavish Arm of Great Bear Lake. Cameron Bay is situated southeast at and Port Radium Airport is at between the two to the north and consisted of a gravel airstrip next to Glacier Lake. History During a field trip along the east arm of Great Bear Lake in August 1900, James McIntosh Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada noted evidences of iron, copper, uranium and cobalt in the vicinity of Echo Bay. Thirty years later, a prospector Gilbert LaBine discovered high-gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Déline Airport
Déline Airport is an airport located northwest of Deline, Northwest Territories, Canada. Caribou The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only represe ... may be found on the runway. The airport was previously known as Fort Franklin Airport. The passenger and cargo shelter was put to tender by the federal government in 1979, as was construction of the runway. The airport played a role in the first episode of '' Arctic Air''. Airlines and destinations Cargo See also * Deline Water Aerodrome References External linksPage about this airporton COPA's ''Places to Fly'' airport directory Certified airports in the Sahtu Region {{NorthwestTerritories-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North-Wright Airways
North-Wright Airways or North Wright Air is an airline based in Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada. It operates commuter services to several communities in the Northwest Territories as well as charter services. Their main base is Norman Wells Airport and they also operate the Norman Wells Water Aerodrome which is used for floatplane operations. History North-Wright Airways was established in 1986 and was previously known, since 1979, as Nahanni Air Services and North Wright Air. Destinations As of July 2024, North-Wright Airways serves the following destinations: *Aklavik ( Aklavik/Freddie Carmichael Airport) * Colville Lake ( Colville Lake/Tommy Kochon Aerodrome) * Deline (Déline Airport) *Fort Good Hope ( Fort Good Hope Airport) *Inuvik ( Inuvik (Mike Zubko) Airport) * Norman Wells ( Norman Wells Airport) - main base *Tulita ( Tulita Airport) *Yellowknife ( Yellowknife Airport) Fleet As of July 2024, North-Wright operates at least nine aircraft and has se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North West Company
The North West Company was a Fur trade in Canada, Canadian fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in the regions that later became Western Canada and Northwestern Ontario. With great wealth at stake, tensions between the companies increased to the point where several minor armed skirmishes broke out, and the two companies were forced by the British government to merge. Before the Company After the French landed in Quebec in 1608, independent French-Canadian traders commonly known as spread out and built a fur trade empire in the St. Lawrence River, St. Lawrence basin. The French competed with the Dutch (from 1614) and English (1664) in New York and the English in Hudson Bay (1670). Unlike the French who traveled into the northern interior and traded with First Nations in their camps and villages, the English made bases at trading posts on Hudson Bay, inviting the indigenous people t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Déline Water Aerodrome
Déline Water Aerodrome is adjacent to Déline, Northwest Territories, Canada, on Great Bear Lake. It is open from mid-May until mid-October. See also *Déline Airport Déline Airport is an airport located northwest of Deline, Northwest Territories, Canada. Caribou The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, ... References Registered aerodromes in the Sahtu Region Seaplane bases in the Northwest Territories {{NorthwestTerritories-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
