YK Past Blast

Judges at the annual fall fair – Aggie Brockman, Alice Legat and Helen Balanoff, examine some of the entries. 1989.

Performers Pied Pear lead a parade of festival goers at the 1989 Folk on the Rocks.

The Wool Bay fish plant, 15 km from Yellowknife, was a busy place for decades. It closed about 10 years ago. 1984.

Muriel Betsina of Ndilo sewing in her tent, 1987.

The Old Town float in the Canada Day parade featured Slugger and a boat-full of local residents. 1985.

Commissioner John Parker and wife Helen dropped the starter’s flag at the 1989 Commissioner’s Cup sailboat race across Great Slave Lake.

Duncan Grant was one of Northern Canada’s most legendary bush pilots. Yellowknife 1993.

View north from Pilot’s Monument in Old Town in 1975. The point is where Air Tindi is located today.

Jeff Rocher, founder and chief pilot of Latham Island Airways.

Yellowknife’s first floating mobile home, anchored on an island in Yellowknife Bay in 1982. Chris Holloway, Dave Smith and Mark Scott enjoy the evening sun on the deck.

Billy Balsillie prepares to take off on Great Slave Lake for a spring snow machine trip. 1985.

Seems vehicles sinking into the ice have been a longstanding part of Yellowknife’s history. Here are two photos from 1939, when Darcy Arden’s bulldozer went through the ice in front of Con Camp. They built this rig to recover the dozer from the icy waters.

Archie Buckley unloads equipment in front of his fish plant on Yellowknife Bay in 2004. For many years, Archie and his wife Nancy were Yellowknife’s main source of fresh Great Slave Lake fish.

Yellowknife bikers go flat out at the Sandpits.