Introducing Yellowknife
Arising from the wilds, Yellowknife is a subarctic cosmopolis. In the local Tlicho language, this is Somba K’e (place of money). It’s the territorial capital, a mining hub and back-of-beyond boomtown, and the NWT’s biggest community by far, with nearly 19, 000 residents.
People-wise, it’s a Northern slumgullion – a spicy if sometimes discordant stew of Dene and Métis from across the territory; Inuit and Inuvialuit from further north; grizzled non-Aboriginal pioneers; get-rich-quick newcomers from southern Canada; plus Armenians, Somalis and other more recent immigrants.
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