Departure from Fort Simpson, NT
Community Name:
Fort Simpson
Traditional/Former Name:
Liidli Koe (place where rivers come together)
crossing the Liard River again -
the only way out of Fort
Simpson
Driving from Fort Simpson to Yellowknife
631 km
Checkpoint Cat
Sambaa Deh Falls Park
can you see Quinten?
crossing the Mackenzie river
discussion with another bus driver
filling up at a station in Fort Providence
Attacked by black flies
Yellowknife - late night arrival
First: wash the bus
impressions
Yellowknife
View from the Rock
Yellowknifers are very inventive when it comes to building houses that suit the Rocky landscape. Flat real estate was not ready available in Yellowknife's old town. Shacks, outhouses, tents, cafes and hotels were all jammed together in the early days, in every available nook and cranny surrounding this area known as " the Rock".
Bush Pilots of Canada
In the 1920s and 1930s a small number of daring aviators broke the silence of the North. Often flying in extreme cold and facing dangerous take-off and landing conditions, these Bush Pilots ferried passengers, mail and freight in and out of remote frontier regions and played a crucial role in the development of the Northern economy and the delivery of public services. Blazing air trails over immense areas, these intrepid pioneers helped map the Canadian Shield and the Arctic barrenlands, and pilots transformed Northern life by bringing this unique region into the Canadian mainstream.
Lunch at the world famous BULLOCK'S
Lake fresh - fish
Sam & Renata Bullock
Served by Elke Richter
Thanks Elke,
Great lunch
Performance on the grounds
of the Yellowknife City Hall
Hosted by the Northern Arts and Cultural Center
in cooperation with the Yellowknife Dutch Community
people coming in
Reading the concert program
Mr. Ben Nind and his daughter
Executive Director
Northern Arts and Cultural Center
Thanks Ben for organizing this great event
Mr. David Lovell
former mayor of Yellowknife
would like to pay tribute to:
Corporal Joseph Russell Lovell
82nd Artillery - 1st Canadian Army Headquarters
(1910 - 1994)
Liberator of the Netherlands
and
Sergeant Catherines (Goldy) Goldsmith
Paymaster - Canadian Women Army Corps
Based in England (paying the troops)
Ms. Joan Nelson
executive member of the Royal Canadian Legion
Branch 164 - Yellowknife
co-chair remembrance day committee
Mr. Dusty Miller - WWII Veteran
Ground engineer with
the Royal Canadian Air Force,
406 Night fighting Squadron
Musquito Airplanes fixed for night fighting
(Based in England)
Liberator of the Netherlands
Mr. Dave MacCann
city Coucillor,
receiving a Tulip Friendship Garden
for his worship Mr. Gorden van Tighem,
Mayor of the City of Yellowknife
Rene 'Receiving the flag of Yellowknife'
great audience
01.00 hrs - special treat after the show
Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights
The sun gives off high-energy charged particles (also called ions) that travel out into space at speeds of 300 to 1200 kilometres per second. A cloud of such particles is called a plasma. The stream of plasma coming from the sun is known as the solar wind. As the solar wind interacts with the edge of the earth's magnetic field, some of the particles are trapped by it and they follow the lines of magnetic force down into the ionosphere, the section of the earth's atmosphere that extends from about 60 to 600 kilometres above the earth's surface. When the particles collide with the gases in the ionosphere they start to glow, producing the spectacle that we know as the auroras, northern and southern. The array of colours consists of red, green, blue and violet.
From the late 19th century until the 1950s, the Shuhtao'ine, or mountain Dene, inhabiting the mountains west of the Mackenzie River travelled in large boats covered with moose hides. Oral histories credit a Dene man named Soldat for the design of the boat. These large boats were made at the mountain camps in early summer to transport people, dogs, meat, furs and other goods down fast flowing rivers to the Mackenzie and then to trading posts. Designed as temporary craft, the boats were dismantled after the journey.
journey to Mont Tremblant QC
stop over in Rankin Inlet NU
4800 km
After a long day driving
we checked into the BCM Inns
High Level, Alberta
impressions
Highway 35
highway 2
Staying overnight in Edmonton
Highway 16
Yellowhead Highway
Quinten cleaning the front window
1.000.000.000 bugs
Captive audience