Giant Mine and the arsenic under YellowknifeLegend Giant Mine produced more than seven million ounces of gold beside Yellowknife between 1948 and 2004, and roasting the arsenopyrite ore to get it out left 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust stored in chambers underground. It... Open it on the map
The Cremation of Sam McGeeLegend The Yukon’s folklore was written in verse. Robert Service, the “Bard of the Yukon,” worked in Whitehorse and Dawson in the gold-rush years and turned the country into ballads that every Canadian schoolchild still learns: The... Open it on the map
The Nahanni and Headless ValleyLegend The South Nahanni cuts canyons more than a kilometre deep through the Mackenzie Mountains, and drops over Virginia Falls at twice the height of Niagara. The name that stuck to one stretch is Headless Valley, after the McLeod... Open it on the map
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