How Yellowknife got its Wings
The capital of the NWT is a haven for private pilots and has been for 60 years. The secret of its success? Simple: Flying is a love story.
Courtesy of Bill Braden
The capital of the NWT is a haven for private pilots and has been for 60 years. The secret of its success? Simple: Flying is a love story.
Courtesy of Bill Braden
Avens: A community for seniors was prepared for just about any emergency. But no one could have imagined the one that arrived in the summer of 2023.
Photo courtesy Canadian Armed Forces
Kiah Vail never dreamt of being a firefighter. Now, she wrangles infernos in the NWT.
Photo Courtesy: Parks Canada
The emotions that follow being evacuated from your home and community are complex. Worry. Frustration. Anger. But we must not let dread and fatalistic thinking take hold.
We have a duty to posterity.
Photo Courtesy: Sailor 1st Class Patrice Harvey, CAF
The evacuation order for Hay River came down on Aug. 13. Only a day earlier, the town had been taking in evacuees from Fort Smith. Now everyone was pulling up stakes again—if the highway could stay open.
Photo By: Rose Wallington
Courtesy Angela Gzowski/NWT Tourism