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- 57Campbell, Sandy
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.jpg "Smoking whitefish at Yellowknife")
2015-07-10
Smoking of fish is a traditional way of preserving it for winter. Many families have smoke houses at their traditional fish camps. Today, smoked fish is often bagged and frozen for later use.
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2015-07-10
Saskatoon berries grow across Northern Canada and are used both as a food source and as a traditional medicine. The berries start out green and are a deep purple when they are ripe.
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2015-07-09
The south wall of the Yellowknife Inn faces a parking lot at 50th Street and 50th Avenue. The Urban Art in Yellowknife exhibit includes cut-out paintings of birds and wild plants that produce edible berries. This painting is of the raspberry and shows the foliage and the green and ripe berries....
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2015-07-08
Raised beds are common in Yellowknife, where there is little topsoil in which to make a garden. In this bed there are several flowers, herbs and vegetables including: marigolds, pansies, parsley, and chives (in bloom).
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2015-07-09
The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre is located on the edge of Frame Lake in Yellowknife, near the Legislative Assembly Building. PWNHC contains a museum, the Territorial Archives, the Museum Restaurant and teaching/programming space. It can be accessed via a flag-lined walkway that...
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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...
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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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2015-07-10
Aspen serpentine leaf miner is a common insect pest in the Northwest Territories. This tree was at 44St and 50th Avenue in Yellowknife. Identification of the pest confirmed by Dr. David Langor Research Scientist, Pest Management and Biodiversity Conservation Natural Resources Canada, Canadian...
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2015-07-08
This polar bear skin rug lies on the floor of the NWT Legislative Assembly Chamber. There is a story that the tour guides tell about it. A man asked the Legislative Assembly to help him because the bear was terrorizing the settlement. The Assembly did not help, so he killed the bear and brought...