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Yellowknife, Canada

January 22, 2014 by · Comments Off on Yellowknife, Canada 

Yellowknife, Canada, Environment Canada looked at 100 Canadian cities and ranked them based in categories, such as longest winter, driest city, and sunniest year round.

‘The temperatures here in Yellowknife are a point of pride for people who live here,’ says Yellowknife mayor, Mark Heyck.

Yellowknife came out on top in 13 of 75 lists.

I think of Yellowknife as a weather champion, says David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada. You’re number one in so many aspects of the weather.”

Yellowknife topped many winter weather lists, including coldest year round, longest snow cover, most cold days and most extreme wind chill.

With average winter temperatures of -28.9 degrees, Phillips says Yellowknife holds lots of cold weather records, including extreme wind chill.

Yellowknife, Canada

January 31, 2012 by · Comments Off on Yellowknife, Canada 

Yellowknife, Canada, Yellowknife is the capital and largest city of the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. It is located on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, approximately 400 km (250 mi) 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 once known as the ‘Copper Indians’ or ‘Yellowknife Indians’ (now referred to locally as the Yellowknives Dene First Nation) who traded tools made from copper deposits near the Arctic Coast. The current population is ethnically mixed. Of the eleven official languages of the Northwest Territories, five are spoken in significant numbers in Yellowknife: Dene Suline, Dogrib, South and North Slavey, English, and French. In the Dogrib language, the city is known as Somba K’e (“where the money is”).

Yellowknife was first settled in 1935, after gold had been found in the area; Yellowknife soon became the centre of economic activity in the NWT, and became the capital of the Northwest Territories in 1967. As gold production began to wane, Yellowknife shifted from being a mining town to being a centre of government services in the 1980s. However, with the discovery of diamonds north of Yellowknife in 1991, this shift has begun to reverse.

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