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.jpg "Caribou carving at the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly")
2015-07-08
This sculpture was created by Alain Iyerak in 1970. It is made from a single vertebra of a bowhead whale. The vertebra had to dry for 100 years to be used for carving. The carving is housed on the upper level of the NWT Legislative Assembly Building.
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2015-07-08
Aurora College Yellowknife/North Slave Campus is located at 50 Ave. and 54 St. in Northern United Place. This is one of three campuses of this college, the others being in Inuvik and Fort Smith. Two of the heavily subscribed programs offered here are Nursing and Social Work. This campus...
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2015-07-08
The NWT Legislative Assembly Building was built so that it is integrated into the surrounding environment. A concrete path leads up to the doors in glass wall which forms the front of the building.
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.jpg "Interior of Northwest Territories Geological Survey Library, Yellowknife, NWT")
2015-07-10
This geoscience library in Yellowknife, NWT, houses an extensive collection of earth sciences materials in all formats.
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2015-07-08
The Garden of Hope is near the shore of Frame Lake. This rock stands near the entrance. A sign near the entrance reads: \"GARDEN OF HOPE Loranie Frances Minish-Cooper (1951 - 2002)\". \"Loraine believed in the power of hope and it was her wish that this garden would be a place of hope, peace...
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2015-07-08
This totem pole stands near the avenue in front of City Hall in Yellowknife, NWT. It was carved at Nitinhat, B.C., by carver, Frank Knighton and donated in 1971 by the People of British Columbia.
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2015-07-08
This lighthouse sits on top of a commercial building on Franklin Avenue in Yellowknife. A sign at the Tourist Information Centre reads, \"A Northern Lighthouse is a specially designed community space weather beacon that indicates when conditions are right for geomagnetic storms caused by the...
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2015-07-08
This work is one of many that are found on the exterior of buildings in Yellowknife. This work is painted on several pieces of plywood nailed together. The image includes a landscape with spring on the left and winter on the far right. The winter sky shows the aurora borealis. Animals include...
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Porcupine quill work on the replica of the original mace of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
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A replica of the original mace of the Legislative Assembly of the Norhwest Territories is on display at the Legislature Building. Around the shaft of the mace there is a section of dyed porcupine quills stitched into diamond and checkerboard patterns in red and blue.The top and bottom edges are...
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2015-07-08
In hard rock environments, power poles can be erected in two ways: drilling or augering a large enough hole in the rock that the pole can be placed into it or placing the pole on top of the rock and anchoring it. In this case, rods have been drilled into the rock and the power pole has been...