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A music and arts festival, usually in August. Musicians and artists from across the Northwest Territories and many other faraway places.
Collection of over 17,000 artifacts including traditional work of the Inuit, Inuvialuit, Dene and Metis, as well as mission, trade, pioneer and portage items. It hosts displays of an authentic northern trading post, a typical northern kitchen from the 1940s, 2 mounted adult bison, a traditional trapper's cabin, a 1965 Polaris Sno-Traveler, and a river bank scene featuring a birch bark canoe. The museum also hosts an outdoor Indigenous cultural centre that showcases Canada's First Peoples' ways of traditional living before European contact occurred in the early 1800s. It host as functional cold cache, smokehouse and tipi for public use.
A museum ship that is part of the Northern Life Museum. The Radium King was built in 1937 to haul ore on the Mackenzie River, and her tributaries. This included uranium used in the US atom bombs of World War II. Later in her active career she hauled barges on Great Slave Lake.
See remains of the Oblate Catholic Mission, the centre of the Church's operations in the western Arctic from 1876 until the early 1980s, with sign boards describing various aspects of the history and activities of the mission. The Cathedral, 1911 Bishop's house, the fields that were cultivated (some of which have been restored), and several other buildings such as machine and carpentry shops, can be seen on this extensive self-guided tour.
Paddle sports travel agency.
Paddlesports travel agency: paddling - kayaks, canoes, rafts & SUP. The Slave River offers some of the most thrilling whitewater rafting in Canada. These river trips cater to all skill levels, from flatwater to Class 5. The rapids on the Slave River, between Fort Fitzgerald and Fort Smith, offer 25 kilometers of whitewater adventure for all skill levels. The four main rapids in the whitewater segment of the Slave River are: Cassette Rapids, Pelican Rapids, Mountain-Portage Rapids and Rapids of the Drowned.
A challenging par 36 course with beautiful and forgiving grass fairways. Artificial greens, water hazards on three holes. Club and cart rentals are available. There are no tee times to book; there is a friendly ‘walk-on’ policy.