The Tłı̨chǫ Highway, also known as the Tłı̨chǫ All-Season Road and officially Northwest Territories Highway 9, is a gravel road in
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a federal Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of Provinces and territorie ...
, Canada. The road connects the
Tłı̨chǫ
The Tłı̨chǫ (, ) people, sometimes spelled Tlicho and also known as the Dogrib, are a Dene First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Name
The name ''Dogrib' ...
First Nations community of
Whatì
Whatì (; from the Dogrib language meaning "Marten Lakes"), officially the ''Tłı̨chǫ Community Government of Whatì'' is a First Nations community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Whatì is located by Lac La Ma ...
to the
Yellowknife Highway
The Yellowknife Highway, officially Northwest Territories Highway 3 and also known as the Great Slave Highway, is a highway connecting Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to the Mackenzie Highway, from a junction north of the Alberta border. F ...
with a permanent all-season road, while also improving winter road access to
Gamètì and
Wekweètì
Wekweètì (; from the Dogrib language meaning "rock lakes"), officially the ''Tłı̨chǫ Community Government of Wekweètì'' is a community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Wekweètì is a Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib D ...
.
Description
Construction on the road began in August 2019. The contract to build the highway by 2022 and then maintain it for 25 years was projected to cost $411.8 million.
The road opened to traffic on 30 November 2021.
References
External links
Official site
Northwest Territories territorial highways
Roads within the Arctic Circle
Gravel roads
Public–private partnership projects in Canada
Transport infrastructure completed in 2021
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