The Yellowknife River is a river in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It flows south and empties into Yellowknife Bay, part of Great Slave Lake, at the city of Yellowknife. The name of the river derives from the Yellowknife tribe, a First Nations people that formerly lived in the area. Motto: None Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Yellowknife Largest city Yellowknife Commissioner Tony Whitford Premier Joe Handley (Consensus government - no party affiliations) Area 1,346,106 km² (3rd) Land 1,183,085 km² Water 163,021 km² (12. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: it is patent nonsense. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Multum In Parvo (Much In Little) City of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada location. ... First Nations is the current title used by Canada to describe the various societies of the indigenous peoples, called Native Americans in the U.S. They have also been known as Indians, Native Canadians, Aboriginal Americans, Amer-Indians, or Aboriginals, and are officially called Indians in the Indian Act, which...
Yellowknife (62°27′N 114°21′W MST) is the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories, with a population of approximately 20,000 as of 2006.
Yellowknife has a semi-arid subarctic climate and averages less than 300 millimeters (12 in) of precipitation annually, as the city lies in the rain shadow of mountain ranges to the west.
Yellowknife was originally established as a supply center for numerous gold mines operating in the region in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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