Discovering Great Towns - Yellowknife, NWT

Shot underneath the midnight sun, Yellowknife is a natural splendor in this high definition look at life in what almost became a modern day ghost town. Instead, it is a modern day boom town as the diamond capital of North America. Yellowknife is located on the Great Slave Lake and is home to renaissance characters, a floating home community, a girls' best friend, great fishing and much, much more.

Beautifully shot and carefully researched, Discovering Great Towns features host and producer Lisa van Reeuwyk as she travels around the world to discover great places off the beaten track. From the Hawaiian Island of Moloka'i to a remote Arctic town, Discovering Great Towns gives you an insider's look at the world not covered in travel magazines.

http://www.discoveringgreattowns.com

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[AirShark95]

@benhurfanclub Such a party pooper!

[lechill1978]

@benhurfanclub Yk is a great place, why don't you pick up the old drums and make BBQ or something, you obviously don't live in old town, where the rust is part of the landscape, been there for a hundred years and no one is adding more, I bet you'll say the houseboats are an eyesore too? go to Kelowna, they are super anal there, you'd love it!

[Arcticpolar12]

I moved here 6 years ago haven't regretted it, love it here! :D

[TheButcher123001]

@benhurfanclub Don't you dare say that about Yellowknife bitch!!

[shanemagow]

@lechill1978 still a lotta bull dykes up there, eh? this bullocks place must be fairly recent. when i was bouncing around yk all the homos congregated at the float base, on franklin ave.

never thought i'd see a queer bar up there. what an unpleasant surprise.

[benhurfanclub]

@lechill1978 Lived in FLS when I was there. 550 bucks a month to live in a closet. Such is the measly existence of a non gov't worker. Had to pay my rent, and theirs.

As for Old Town, never could understand its popularity. Surprised it still exists. The whole place is a fire waiting to happen. In any other city, OT would be skid row, minus the low rents. Landlords still charging 700 a month for those shanties? As for the houseboats, not so bad. Standoffish inhabitants, though.

[lechill1978]

wild cat is good for Breakfast, but try the Bullocks, the angry lesbians add to the atmosphere, LOL

[jsuswaram]

Canadians are lovely people

love from US! :)

[benhurfanclub]

@davidwill6 I was referring to industrial waste/garbage. A city need not be industrial to have rusty old oil drums and tanks lying about polluting the landscape. From Frame Lake to the slums (aka "Old Town"), the place is an eyesore.

And small wonder it's tied with Ottawa with you. After all, what is Y'knife but a suburb of Ottawa? Phony economy and all. Far more drunks and mosquitoes, though.

[davidwill6]

@benhurfanclub industrial? yellowknife is probably the least industrial city in the world, other than the mines outside of town. i've lived in ottawa, cape town, dubai and YK and YK is definitely my favorite, tied with ottawa.

[benhurfanclub]

@AirShark95 Only when I'm in certain localities, and Y'knife is/was one of them. Real buzzkill, that place. Actually I'm a fun, easy going kinda guy.