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Circumpolar Digital Image Collection
The Circumpolar Digital Image Collection is a collection of photos, slides, other images and contributions shared by many of the University of Alberta’s polar researchers. Images in the collection may be used for teaching and research purposes. For any other use, please contact the Canadian Circumpolar Institute.
Items in this Collection
- 14Yellowknife, NT
- 61965
- 3Franklin Avenue, Yellowknife, NT
- 3Pilot's Monument, Yellowknife, NT
- 2Aircraft
- 2Houseboats
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2012-03-11
Arctic SunWest Charters is based in Yellowknife and provides passenger and freight service from Yellowknife Airport and a float plane base on Great Slave Lake. Photograph taken March 2012
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2012-03-11
Canadian North is a northern aboriginal owned airline based in Yellowknife and serving Arctic Canada. This aircraft at Yellowknife Airport has the airline logo which includes a polar bear, the midnight sun and the Northern Lights (aurora borealis). The aircraft is a Boeing 727, the largest plane...
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1965-09-01
Pouring liquid gold into a mould to make gold bricks, Giant Mine, Yellowknife, NT, September 1965. Anyone able to carry the 12.5 kg brick one-handed to the Post Office in town, over 3 km away, could keep it. The price of gold was then about CAN$35 per ounce (28 g)
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1965-09-01
Hudson's Bay Company department store, Franklin Avenue, Yellowknife, NT, September 1965
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2012-03-10
Truck dispatch point situated on Old Airport Road, Yellowknife, NT, for the winter ice roads to the Ekati and Diavik diamond mines, and to settlements without permanent road access. Photograph taken March 2012
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2011-01-01
View east from Pilots' Monument, Yellowknife, NT, to Jollife Island. In summer the channel in front of the Island is the landing area for float planes. The Monument has a signal light on top that flashes when a float plane is about to land, indicating that boat traffic should move aside....
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2011-01-01
Historic marker on Pilots' Monument ('The Rock') in the Old Town area of Yellowknife, NT. The Monument is a high point that originally held the town water tanks but is now dedicated to the bush pilots and air engineers. In summer the monument has a signal light on top that flashes when a float...
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2012-03-10
Plane on display at Old Airport Road, Yellowknife : the first Bristol Freighter in the North : used by Wardair, an airline based in Yellowknife and Edmonton, founded in 1953 by bush pilot Max Ward, initially using small bush planes. This aircraft was used to bring in the town fire truck, farm...
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1965-09-01
Weaver and Devore general store beside Back Bay, Old Town, Yellowknife, NT, September 1965. Suppliers of outfits for trappers and prospectors. Now re-located to an adjacent building ; the old building in use as a restaurant (2001)
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2011-01-01
View SE from Pilots' Monument, Yellowknife, NT across Yellowknife Bay. The ice road to Dettah is visible as a grey line from right to left, beyond the centre group of houseboats, with several vehicles on it. Photograph taken January 2011.