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2012-03-09
The Con Mine tower or Robertson Headframe was a landmark in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and was visible from planes landing at the airport, and from Great Slave Lake. It marks the site of the Con, or Cominco, gold mine, first staked in 1935 and productive until 2003. The tower was...
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2012-03-10
View of Old Town, Yellowknife, from the ice on Yellowknife Bay. Pilot's Monument at the top of the hill commemorates early bush pilots and also has a flashing light that warns if a small plane is about to land or take off in the channel between Old Town and Jolliffe Island. Photograph taken March...
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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...