Yellowknife Info

Homage to Yellowknife spring

Liz — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:54:26 +0000

Yellowknife spring is a time of melting snow and ice, of dangerous commutes for houseboaters, and of the return of the summer migrants. This photo/video post is in honour of this sunny, melty & muddy time of year. Enjoy! And by the way, the ice road to Dettah closes today at 3 p.m.

Northern architectural gems

Liz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:12:07 +0000

Gino Pin, founder of Pin/Taylor Architects and a designer of NWT’s famed Legislative Assembly Building, says it’s vital to understand what the area you’re designing for has to offer. “Too often people who are accustomed to a certain area of the county consider that approach to building should be the same regardless of where [...]

Old Town aesthetic

Liz — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:17:51 +0000

This photo album is based upon an architecture walk led by Wayne Guy during Ramble and Ride 2011, but by no means covers all the buildings that he discussed. Also used for reference in captioning the photo gallery were both Old Town Heritage Walking Tour and the even more in-depth Yellowknife Historical Building Inventory – Summer 2005. [...]

Godson’s rap rocks the Great Hall

Liz — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:03:49 +0000

It isn’t everyday that you get the chance to hear rap in the Great Hall of the Legislative Assembly building, so I just had to check out the debut of Godson’s new single yesterday. Godson was commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Services to write the song for its new drug and alcohol awareness campaign, [...]

High winds follow record warm December day in Yellowknife

Liz — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:14:02 +0000

It’s been a mad couple of days weather wise, from the record setting high of -4C on 5 Dec. 2011, to the 60-70 km/hour winds with blowing snow that followed the next day. Here are a few pictures of how that looked.

Yellowknife’s “abnormal temperature trend”

Liz — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:02:16 +0000

It’s 1 December and the temperature has warmed up 10C since this morning. And shockingly, Environment Canada still has tomorrow’s high temperature as -3C, and the temperature is supposed to reach -8 overnight – something Environment Canada calls an “abnormal temperature trend.” Environment Canada Arctic Regional Manager Yvonne Bilan-Wallace said that an intense low [...]