Great Bear Lake, NWT, Canada

Deline (formerly known as Fort Franklin until 1 June 1993) is a community on the western shore of Great Bear Lake, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located at 65°10′N 123°25′W, 544 km northwest of Yellowknife. Image File history File links Great_Bear_Lake. ... Image File history File links Great_Bear_Lake. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Great Bear Lake, NWT, Canada Mackenzie River drainage basin showing Great Bear Lakes position in the Western Canadian Arctic Great Bear Lake (Slavey: Sahtu, French: Grand lac de lOurs) is the largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada, the fourth largest in North America, and the eight... Motto: none Official languages Chipewyan, Cree, English, French, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey, Tåîchô [1] Flower Mountain avens Tree Tamarack Bird Gyr Falcon Capital Yellowknife Largest city Yellowknife Commissioner Tony Whitford Premier Joe Handley (Consensus government (no party affiliations)) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats... Motto: Multum In Parvo (Much In Little) Coordinates: Country Canada Territory Northwest Territories Established 1936/1937 City Mayor Gordon Van Tighem Governing Body Consensus government Legislature List of Yellowknife MPs and MLAs Area    - City 105. ...

Deline (pronounced "Dé-lį-ne") has a population of 536 people (2001 Census), mainly Sahtú Dene people speaking North Slavey. Deline means "where the waters flow", a reference to the headwaters of the Great Bear River, Sahtúdé. The Canada 2001 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. ... The Dene are a group of First Nations that live in the Arctic regions of Canada. ... The Slavey language is a spoken language used among the Slavey Native American people of Canada. ...

The area became prominent when pitchblende was discovered at the Eldorado Mine, some 250 km away, on the eastern shore, at Port Radium. During World War II, the Canadian government took over the mine and began to produce uranium for the then-secret American nuclear bomb project. The village, became a permanent settlement in 1952, with the building of a school. For the band, see Pitchblende (band). ... Great Bear Lake, NWT, Canada Port Radium is the regional name for a mining area on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... General Name, Symbol, Number uranium, U, 92 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery gray metallic; corrodes to a spalling black oxide coat in air Atomic mass 238. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ...

The Dene from Deline, who were conscripted as ore carriers, were not informed about the risks of radioactivity or how to protect themselves. Most of those men who participated began to die of cancer in the 1960s. The Dene are a group of First Nations that live in the Arctic regions of Canada. ... Radioactivity may mean: Look up radioactivity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis. ...

According to oral history, while canoeing on Great Bear Lake in the early part of the 20th century, a Deline elder reached a precipice where he had a vision of a great city burning, of people who comported First Nations features enduring great suffering. According to tradition, this precipice is where uranium was later discovered.

External links

• Welcome to Délįne
• Village of Widows

Sources

• John Price, "Our own atomic victims," Victoria Times-Colonist

Coordinates: 65°10′N 123°25′W The Times Colonist is an English-language daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...