Stories and Articles

23 September 2013

Sahtú Gotı̨ch'ádı́ı - Wildlife of the Sahtú Region

Featuring both a website: www.srrb.nt.ca - and a Facebook page, the content focuses on sharing information about the wildlife and harvesting of same, throughout the Sahtú Region of Denendeh, in the Northwest Territories.

21 June 2013

Breaking Twigs

by Harold

I've done my fair share of fishing over the past 50 years or so -some might even say more than my fair share. Travelling in search of fish has taken me to some very "exotic" places throughout North America and beyond, but none more "exotic" than Great Bear Lake.

1 April 2013

NHL Players Travel Back in Time to Play a Real Winter Classic

by Harold

After an absence of 187 years, professional hockey finally “came home,” and played what could be described as the winter classic of the century.

1 October 2012

The Real Legend Behind the Urban Legend - a post script to "Toppling a Sacred Cow"

by Harold

Although I was able to piece together much of the overall history of the DC-6A/C -118A that sat on the tarmac at the Yellowknife Airport for many years, there is a period of time that had remained somewhat unaccounted for.

28 July 2012

What's In a Name?

by Harold

Have you ever wondered how the places you have fished, or otherwise visited on and around Great Bear Lake came by their names?

6 May 2012

Toppling a “Sacred Cow”…

by Harold

The demise of a “northern” urban legend regarding the possible whereabouts of the original Air Force 1.

1 April 2012

Mare incognitum - The Unknown Sea

by Harold

So how is it possible we know so little about a body of water roughly the size of England that’s located right in our own backyard?

6 August 2011

Great Bear Lake Library

by Harold

Perhaps because it is so isolated, and off of the main transportation and trade routes, not a great deal has been written about Great Bear Lake over the years. Notations in the journals of various explorers and adventures constitute the bulk of the written record, but for the most part, these individuals were just passing through on their way to somewhere else. They rarely commented in much detail on the people who lived on and around the lake, or transcribed their feelings and thoughts about what impression that the big lake may have made upon them.

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