Yellowknife Shorts
Description: Yellowknife is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 kilometres (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
Description: Yellowknife is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 kilometres (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
Description: Yellowknife is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 kilometres (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
Description: Yellowknife is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 kilometres (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
Description: This composition celebrates the annual music gathering held in Yellowknife. It features elements of the northern landscape including pine trees, a campfire, a tent, and rugged rock formations. Musicians play instruments like a violin, a banjo, and an acoustic guitar under a moonlit sky with a soaring eagle. A floatplane glides over water near a compass rose. This festival represents northern melody and outdoor adventure in the Northwest Territories.
Description: This display features the Folk On The Rocks festival taking place in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories during 2026. Elements include a banjo, guitar, mandolin, microphone, and a floatplane on the water. Northern lights appear above pine trees, a black bear, a raven, and an Inukshuk. Two people dance near a campfire under the night sky.
Description: Ragged Ass Road is a short unpaved residential street in the Old Town section of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Its name started as a joke in 1970 by resident Lou Rocher, who owned much of the property along it at the time, and his friends. At the time the street had been known as "Privy Road" due to the large number of outhouses along it. When a difficult prospecting season yielded little income, convincing residents that they were "ragged ass broke", they decided that that should be the name of the street