Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

The Northern Lights over Yellowknife

Downtown Yellowknife.

Yellowknife (2021 population: 20,340^[1]) is a Canadian city. It is the capital of the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is located on the north shore of Great Slave Lake. The city used to be a mining town until the 1980's.

On August 16, 2023, the city of Yellowknife had to evacuate because of the growing wildfires near the area.^[2]

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Media

Yellowknife from Back Bay. In the 1930s, the area was home to a number of prospectors.
Mid 20th-century Yellowknife; the community was incorporated as a municipality in 1953.
Yellowknife was scoured down to rock during the last glacial period, making the landscape very rocky, and slightly rolling, with many small lakes.
Heavy ice fog can develop on the coldest winter mornings
Downtown Yellowknife is home to most of the city's commercial activity
Yellowknife City Hall
Processing plants at Snap Lake Diamond Mine, located 220 km (140 mi) northeast of Yellowknife. Yellowknife's economy recovered in the 1990s due to a number of diamond mines located outside the city.
The Department of National Defence building in Yellowknife. The federal government is among the largest employers in Yellowknife.
Aurora borealis over Yellowknife
Demolition of the headframe at Con Mine in 2016. The gold mine, just south of the city limits, was in operation from 1938 to 2003. The headframe was the tallest building in the NWT until October 2016.