Once heated, the spruce gum is applied to the canoe. What to do when a bear eats your canoe by Terry Woolf | photos courtesy Aggie Brockman It’s about an eight-hour canoe paddle to our cabin. There are five portages, three of them approximately one-kilometre long. Over the years we have accumulated enough old beater
Deepak Kumar: Yellowknife’s somewhat mysterious new diamond king by Jack Danylchuk Spring came late this year to Yellowknife and Archibald Street, the block-long huddle of single-storey buildings that was known as Diamond Row when the city’s claim to be ‘Diamond Capital of North America’ was more than a hollow boast. Spring is the season of
New fiction by Rich Larson | Illustration by Pearl Rachinsky The bar vomits us all up at 2 a.m., sends us blinking into the sunshine. The sky is washed out with blue and pink and if the street wasn’t so empty, or maybe if you were tanked enough, you’d honestly think it was day. Gregory’s
On EDGE: Opinion Lynda Comerford I had always looked forward to being “a mature older woman.” There was just some sort of confident, diva peacefulness associated with that phrase; a confidence that the foibles of one’s youth are well behind you. Recently I realized I’d have to find a new anticipation, because I think my
Things are different for a sports store in a small city, and as of this June, Overlander Sports has been doing everything from selling gear to sponsoring community events for 30 years. Overlander Sports, affectionately referred by just about everyone I know as “Overlanders,” has been around for as long as I can remember. As
“Keep the best sites to yourself.” That’s what the late, great eco-activist and fellow nature writer, Edward Abbey, would have advised me if he knew I was writing an article about the top walking trails in and around Yellowknife. But sorry Ed, I want to celebrate the “best sites,” champion them, keep them on the
Wendy Malkin, Gold Glove Nothing truly announces the arrival of summer like the crack of the bat, the smack of ball hitting mitt, and the delightful heckles emanating from the beer gardens as another season of Yellowknife’s favourite summer sport, Slo-Pitch, takes off. With over 50 teams signed up in the four divisions of the
(A love story that moves me) Verse by Anthony Foliot If love was a shipping lane, and we’re a northbound & southbound tanker, we’d never seem to find the time to drift around the anchor. But I’ve got my radar locked on you, and there’s a following breeze, the bears are wandering up in the
One of YK’s greatest aviators, the late Arnie Shreder has a charity relay team walking – as well as a burger named – in his honour As Yvette Shreder drops a worn-out cardboard box on her kitchen table, a bit of dust and the stale smell of old paper fill the air. “It’s gotta be
As proof of the growing media buzz, the band made a recent cover of Calgary’s BeatRoute Magazine. From left to right, Shea Alain, Scott Munro, Distance Bullock and Reuben Bullock. by Laurie Sarkadi | photo Doug Kim for Magazine Shea Alain, the 23-year-old Yellowknife musician who winces when asked to name his former high school
YK has more pellet boilers than anywhere in Canada! by Jack Danylchuk Welcome to Yellowknife, Canada’s pellet boiler capital. Not the first choice for a boast to tourists who want to see where the ice road to the diamond mines begins, but it’s one that former Mayor Gordon Van Tighem delights in, especially when thoughts
Rediscovering Discovery Mine by Ryan Silke Giant Mine town site is the number one ghost town in Canada to see before it’s gone, according to a December blog on macleans.ca. Citing ghost towns as “testimony to our pioneering spirit and to dashed dreams – offering visitors haunting, often picturesque glimpses of the Canadian past,” Giant
It’s a blustery cold night and I’m peering into the windows of a townhouse near Tin Can Hill. Within minutes a stranger has welcomed me into her home and I’m slipping into a pair of jeans she bought but never wore, sizing myself up in her bathroom mirror. The tag is still on them –
story and photos by Pat Kane Gracey Finass gives a coy wink and smile to a hooting, whistling crowd before strutting off-stage. It’s here where Gracey turns back into Erika Nyyssonen, director of Brrrlesque, the mid-winter variety show ticketed as “The Hottest Show in Town!” Backstage, Nyyssonen is all business as she helps with last-minute
House and garden on School Draw. 1950s-1960s. | NWT Archives/©City of Yellowknife/N-1992-170: 0116 Imagine walking up to a row of outdoor vendors, the smell of coffee brewing, baked goods steaming in the morning air. Bounds of high quality, locally grown fresh herbs and vegetables are on offer: lettuce mixes, spinach, kale, radishes, and juicy greenhouse-tendered tomatoes.