Northwest Territories

Yellowknife, 2025

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

December 2025

Old Town, Yellowknife · December 2025

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.

Natural hazards near Yellowknife · December 2025

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 · December 2025

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 · December 2025

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 · December 2025

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

December 2025 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.

November 2025

Indoor radon around Yellowknife · November 2025

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 · November 2025

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 · November 2025

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 · November 2025

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.

October 2025

October 2025: 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, Yellowknife · October 2025

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

October 2025 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 · October 2025

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 · October 2025

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.

September 2025

September 2025: building permits in Yellowknife

Where Yellowknife sits in published building-permit figures for September 2025.

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.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza, Yellowknife · September 2025

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 · September 2025

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 · September 2025

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

September 2025 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.

September 2025: 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 2025

Old Town in Yellowknife · August 2025

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.

August 2025: 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).

August 2025 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 · August 2025

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 · August 2025

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.

July 2025

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument, Yellowknife · July 2025

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

July 2025 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.

Internet coverage in Yellowknife · July 2025

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 · July 2025

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 · July 2025

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.

June 2025

Somba K'e Civic Plaza keeps Yellowknife lively · June 2025

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.

Yellowknife beside its neighbours · June 2025

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 · June 2025

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

June 2025 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.

June 2025: 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 · June 2025

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.

May 2025

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument, Yellowknife · May 2025 · 2

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

May 2025 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.

Yellowknife: City aurora pages point to Northern Lighthouses around town that · May 2025

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.

May 2025: building permits in Yellowknife

Where Yellowknife sits in published building-permit figures for May 2025.

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 · May 2025

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

May 2025 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.

April 2025

Somba K'e Civic Plaza keeps Yellowknife lively · April 2025

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.

Old Town in Yellowknife · April 2025

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.

April 2025: 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.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza in Yellowknife · April 2025

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.

March 2025

March 2025: 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).

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.

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument, Yellowknife · March 2025

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

March 2025 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.

Natural hazards near Yellowknife · March 2025

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.

Old Town, Yellowknife · March 2025

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.

Internet coverage in Yellowknife · March 2025

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.

February 2025

Yellowknife: The Bristol Freighter near Yellowknife Airport is listed as the · February 2025

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.

Indoor radon around Yellowknife · February 2025

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.

Bristol Freighter Welcome Monument keeps Yellowknife lively · February 2025

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

February 2025 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.

Yellowknife beside its neighbours · February 2025

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.

January 2025

Old Town in Yellowknife · January 2025

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.

January 2025: 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.

Somba K'e Civic Plaza, Yellowknife · January 2025

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, Yellowknife · January 2025

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.

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.