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2012-03-11

Seale, Linda N.

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

2012-03-11

Seale, Linda N.

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...

1965-09-01

Seale, Linda N.

Aerial view of float plane landing at Discovery Mine in Giaoque Lake, 80 km northeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, September 1965. The mine operated from 1950 to 1969. The townsite was demolished in 2005.

1965-09-01

Seale, Linda N.

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)

2012-03-10

Seale, Linda N.

Houseboat frozen into the ice on Yellowknife Bay, Northwest Territories. The ice is thick enough to support vehicles. Access is by boat in summer, and may be limited during breakup and freeze-up. Jolliffe Island in the background. Photograph taken March 10, 2012

1965-09-01

Seale, Linda N.

Hudson's Bay Company department store, Franklin Avenue, Yellowknife, NT, September 1965

2012-03-10

Seale, Linda N.

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

2011-01-01

Seale, Linda N.

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....

2011-01-01

Seale, Linda N.

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...

2012-03-10

Seale, Linda N.

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...