Northwest Territories

Yellowknife, 2024

Archive of hometown notes from Yellowknife: local places, drinking water, taxes, and construction.

December 2024

Yellowknife: City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that · December 2024

City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that signal when active northern lights are in the evening forecast.

December 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that signal when active northern lights are in the evening forecast.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

December 2024: building permits in Yellowknife

Where Yellowknife sits in published building-permit figures for December 2024.

Construction intent in Yellowknife shows up first as authorized permit dollars. Read a single month as a pulse, not a verdict.

Open the Yellowknife permits page and the Construction Pulse rankings for the wider board.

Old Town, Yellowknife · December 2024

The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the

Old Town still orients Yellowknife. The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the neighbourhood into the annual calendar.

The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport is listed as the city's Welcome Monument for bush pilots.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument keeps Yellowknife lively · December 2024

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument is a reason people stay fond of Yellowknife.

December 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

Many playgrounds and parks are built into Canadian Shield granite, so rock climbing sits beside the swing sets.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza in Yellowknife · December 2024

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

November 2024

November 2024: property tax in Yellowknife

Published residential mill-rate context for Yellowknife.

Residential mill rates for Yellowknife appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.

Assessment bases differ by province. Read Yellowknife beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument in Yellowknife · November 2024

OpenStats has no City Score placement for Yellowknife in the current datapack. The hometown read is northern on purpose: lake ice and

November 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

Kam Lake is framed as a key employment area, with a City expansion plan for undeveloped land to the west.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

November 2024: Yellowknife drinking water

Yellowknife draws municipal drinking water from Yellowknife River and Yellowknife Bay (emergency / secondary intake), treated at Yellowknife Water Treatment Plant (Pumphouse No. 1 complex).

Ask where Yellowknife drinking water begins and the answer is Yellowknife Bay (emergency / secondary intake), then Yellowknife Water Treatment Plant (Pumphouse No. 1 complex). That supply chain is what the water atlas puts beside hardness and lead.

Membrane filtration plant (commissioned 2015) with on-site sodium hypochlorite generation and fluoridation; raw water arrives from Pumphouse No. 2 at the Yellowknife River via submersible pipeline under Yellowknife Bay.

See the Yellowknife water page for the grade, source notes, and municipal report links.

Old Town, Yellowknife · November 2024

The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the

Old Town still orients Yellowknife. The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the neighbourhood into the annual calendar.

Many playgrounds and parks are built into Canadian Shield granite, so rock climbing sits beside the swing sets.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

October 2024

Natural hazards near Yellowknife · October 2024

Seismic and wildfire context that applies to Yellowknife.

Yellowknife appears on NRCan seismic context (peak ground acceleration) and, where live, wildfire-season flags. Flood grades are incomplete on some pages.

Hazard pages are comparative geography, not insurance certificates. Pair them with provincial emergency bulletins when weather turns.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza, Yellowknife · October 2024

Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Internet coverage in Yellowknife · October 2024

Advertised broadband availability for Yellowknife.

Broadband rows for Yellowknife come from ISED National Broadband Data: advertised max download, 50/10 availability, and technology flags where published.

A map hex is not a living-room speed test. Confirm with your ISP after reading the Yellowknife internet page.

Yellowknife: The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport is listed as the · October 2024

The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport is listed as the city's Welcome Monument for bush pilots.

October 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport is listed as the city's Welcome Monument for bush pilots.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

September 2024

Indoor radon around Yellowknife · September 2024

How Yellowknife sits in Health Canada indoor-radon survey geography.

Indoor radon figures for Yellowknife follow Health Canada survey geography, often at CMA or regional scale. Higher mean Bq/m³ ranks as higher risk on the board.

A home still needs its own long-term test. Use the radon page to put Yellowknife in national context first.

Old Town keeps Yellowknife lively · September 2024

Old Town is a reason people stay fond of Yellowknife.

Old Town still orients Yellowknife. The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the neighbourhood into the annual calendar.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza hosts the Sounds of Summer free Friday concert series through late August.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Yellowknife beside its neighbours · September 2024

How Yellowknife compares with nearby cities on City Score.

Yellowknife's City Score blends published open-data pillars: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity.

A Rising or Dropping badge marks a multi-year rank move. The green line on the hometown chart carries the year-by-year path.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza in Yellowknife · September 2024

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

September 2024: property tax in Yellowknife

Published residential mill-rate context for Yellowknife.

Residential mill rates for Yellowknife appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.

Assessment bases differ by province. Read Yellowknife beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.

August 2024

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument, Yellowknife · August 2024

A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

August 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

Many playgrounds and parks are built into Canadian Shield granite, so rock climbing sits beside the swing sets.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza, Yellowknife · August 2024

Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Yellowknife: City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that · August 2024

City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that signal when active northern lights are in the evening forecast.

Old Town still orients Yellowknife. The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the neighbourhood into the annual calendar.

City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that signal when active northern lights are in the evening forecast.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

August 2024: building permits in Yellowknife

Where Yellowknife sits in published building-permit figures for August 2024.

Construction intent in Yellowknife shows up first as authorized permit dollars. Read a single month as a pulse, not a verdict.

Open the Yellowknife permits page and the Construction Pulse rankings for the wider board.

July 2024

Somba K'e Civic Plaza, Yellowknife · July 2024

Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Old Town keeps Yellowknife lively · July 2024

Old Town is a reason people stay fond of Yellowknife.

Old Town still orients Yellowknife. The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the neighbourhood into the annual calendar.

Many playgrounds and parks are built into Canadian Shield granite, so rock climbing sits beside the swing sets.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument in Yellowknife · July 2024

OpenStats has no City Score placement for Yellowknife in the current datapack. The hometown read is northern on purpose: lake ice and

July 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza hosts the Sounds of Summer free Friday concert series through late August.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

July 2024: property tax in Yellowknife

Published residential mill-rate context for Yellowknife.

Residential mill rates for Yellowknife appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.

Assessment bases differ by province. Read Yellowknife beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.

Old Town in Yellowknife · July 2024

Yellowknife is a capital on Great Slave Lake, and the shoreline still orders the story. Old Town holds the heritage waterfront, from

Old Town still orients Yellowknife. The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the neighbourhood into the annual calendar.

Kam Lake is framed as a key employment area, with a City expansion plan for undeveloped land to the west.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

June 2024

June 2024: Yellowknife drinking water

Yellowknife draws municipal drinking water from Yellowknife River and Yellowknife Bay (emergency / secondary intake), treated at Yellowknife Water Treatment Plant (Pumphouse No. 1 complex).

June 2024 is a good week to revisit Yellowknife's source: Yellowknife River and Yellowknife Bay (emergency / secondary intake). Treatment at Yellowknife Water Treatment Plant (Pumphouse No. 1 complex) sits between the intake and the tap.

Membrane filtration plant (commissioned 2015) with on-site sodium hypochlorite generation and fluoridation; raw water arrives from Pumphouse No. 2 at the Yellowknife River via submersible pipeline under Yellowknife Bay.

See the Yellowknife water page for the grade, source notes, and municipal report links.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza, Yellowknife · June 2024

Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Natural hazards near Yellowknife · June 2024

Seismic and wildfire context that applies to Yellowknife.

Yellowknife appears on NRCan seismic context (peak ground acceleration) and, where live, wildfire-season flags. Flood grades are incomplete on some pages.

Hazard pages are comparative geography, not insurance certificates. Pair them with provincial emergency bulletins when weather turns.

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument, Yellowknife · June 2024

A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

June 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that signal when active northern lights are in the evening forecast.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

May 2024

Internet coverage in Yellowknife · May 2024

Advertised broadband availability for Yellowknife.

Broadband rows for Yellowknife come from ISED National Broadband Data: advertised max download, 50/10 availability, and technology flags where published.

A map hex is not a living-room speed test. Confirm with your ISP after reading the Yellowknife internet page.

Yellowknife: The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport is listed as the · May 2024

The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport is listed as the city's Welcome Monument for bush pilots.

Old Town still orients Yellowknife. The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the neighbourhood into the annual calendar.

The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport is listed as the city's Welcome Monument for bush pilots.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Indoor radon around Yellowknife · May 2024

How Yellowknife sits in Health Canada indoor-radon survey geography.

Indoor radon figures for Yellowknife follow Health Canada survey geography, often at CMA or regional scale. Higher mean Bq/m³ ranks as higher risk on the board.

A home still needs its own long-term test. Use the radon page to put Yellowknife in national context first.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza keeps Yellowknife lively · May 2024

Somba K'e Civic Plaza is a reason people stay fond of Yellowknife.

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

April 2024

Yellowknife beside its neighbours · April 2024

How Yellowknife compares with nearby cities on City Score.

Yellowknife's City Score blends published open-data pillars: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity.

A Rising or Dropping badge marks a multi-year rank move. The green line on the hometown chart carries the year-by-year path.

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument in Yellowknife · April 2024

OpenStats has no City Score placement for Yellowknife in the current datapack. The hometown read is northern on purpose: lake ice and

April 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

Kam Lake is framed as a key employment area, with a City expansion plan for undeveloped land to the west.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

April 2024: property tax in Yellowknife

Published residential mill-rate context for Yellowknife.

Residential mill rates for Yellowknife appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.

Assessment bases differ by province. Read Yellowknife beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.

Old Town, Yellowknife · April 2024

The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the

Old Town still orients Yellowknife. The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the neighbourhood into the annual calendar.

Many playgrounds and parks are built into Canadian Shield granite, so rock climbing sits beside the swing sets.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument, Yellowknife · April 2024

A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

April 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza hosts the Sounds of Summer free Friday concert series through late August.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

March 2024

Yellowknife: City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that · March 2024

City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that signal when active northern lights are in the evening forecast.

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

March 2024: building permits in Yellowknife

Where Yellowknife sits in published building-permit figures for March 2024.

Building-permit value for Yellowknife comes from Statistics Canada when a direct-tier row exists. Quiet months often follow busy ones.

Open the Yellowknife permits page and the Construction Pulse rankings for the wider board.

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument, Yellowknife · March 2024

A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

March 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport is listed as the city's Welcome Monument for bush pilots.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Why Somba K'e Civic Plaza still draws people in Yellowknife

Somba K'e Civic Plaza is a reason people stay fond of Yellowknife.

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

February 2024

Old Town in Yellowknife · February 2024

Yellowknife is a capital on Great Slave Lake, and the shoreline still orders the story. Old Town holds the heritage waterfront, from

Old Town still orients Yellowknife. The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the neighbourhood into the annual calendar.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza hosts the Sounds of Summer free Friday concert series through late August.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

February 2024: property tax in Yellowknife

Published residential mill-rate context for Yellowknife.

Residential mill rates for Yellowknife appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.

Assessment bases differ by province. Read Yellowknife beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.

What stands out in Yellowknife

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

From Yellowknife Bay (emergency / secondary intake) to the tap in Yellowknife

Yellowknife draws municipal drinking water from Yellowknife River and Yellowknife Bay (emergency / secondary intake), treated at Yellowknife Water Treatment Plant (Pumphouse No. 1 complex).

Yellowknife municipal drinking water starts at Yellowknife River and Yellowknife Bay (emergency / secondary intake) and is treated at Yellowknife Water Treatment Plant (Pumphouse No. 1 complex). Lab numbers on the water page describe the published geography, not every private tap.

Membrane filtration plant (commissioned 2015) with on-site sodium hypochlorite generation and fluoridation; raw water arrives from Pumphouse No. 2 at the Yellowknife River via submersible pipeline under Yellowknife Bay.

See the Yellowknife water page for the grade, source notes, and municipal report links.

January 2024

Landmark: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument

A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

January 2024 in Yellowknife: Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument. A bush-plane landmark perched near Yellowknife Airport. Locals treat it as the hello sign for a flying town.

Many playgrounds and parks are built into Canadian Shield granite, so rock climbing sits beside the swing sets.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Seismic and wildfire context for Yellowknife

Seismic and wildfire context that applies to Yellowknife.

Yellowknife appears on NRCan seismic context (peak ground acceleration) and, where live, wildfire-season flags. Flood grades are incomplete on some pages.

Hazard pages are comparative geography, not insurance certificates. Pair them with provincial emergency bulletins when weather turns.

Still finding Old Town

The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the

Old Town still orients Yellowknife. The heritage waterfront on Yellowknife Bay, home to Wildcat Café and the old floatplane shore. Old Town Ramble and Ride still pulls the neighbourhood into the annual calendar.

City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that signal when active northern lights are in the evening forecast.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Connectivity note for Yellowknife

Advertised broadband availability for Yellowknife.

Broadband rows for Yellowknife come from ISED National Broadband Data: advertised max download, 50/10 availability, and technology flags where published.

A map hex is not a living-room speed test. Confirm with your ISP after reading the Yellowknife internet page.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza still surprises

The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport is listed as the city's Welcome Monument for bush pilots.

Walk or drive through Yellowknife long enough and Somba K'e Civic Plaza comes up. Civic lawn near City Hall for summer concerts and Fireweed Studio season. Bring a chair on Fridays when Sounds of Summer is on.

Winter is not a side note. The City leans on clear nights and aurora season, mid-November through early April, and dots the streets with Northern Lighthouses that tip you when the lights are active. Summers swing the other way, with midnight sun that refuses to log off and festivals such as Folk on the Rocks in the local cultural vocabulary. Cabin Radio still sends people to Old Town Ramble and Ride when the floatplane shore wants a parade of bikes and boots. The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport stays the bush-pilot welcome marker, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre plus Yellowknives Dene First Nation links keep the deeper northern history in reach.

More on Yellowknife: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.