Monday 5 April 2010

Yellowknife History Jan 1930 to Dec 1939 on the web


Yellowknife Gold Field No Place for Transients .
Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive - Sep 14, 1938
There is no place for the transient in the Yellowknife gold field, two officials of the Mines and Resources Department, back from a tour of inspection of ...

NWT TO TO BE ASKE EASE LIQUOR RULE Yellowknife Petitions for .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Feb 8, 1939
The move follows receipt by the Government of a petition from Yellowknife. urging the relaxing of the regulations to permit the licensing of beer parlors in ...

Townsite Projected Yellowknife, Great Slave Lake, Population Growing .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Jul 6, 1938
To accommodate the growing population of miners, settlers and traders in the Yellowknife area of the NorthWest Territories, the Department of Mines and ...

Bear Exploration Forms Company On Rw Group In Yellowknife .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Mar 8, 1938
8 claims In the Yellowknife District adjoining Immediately south of the Negus Gold Mines. Those connected with the financing arc also Interested In one of ...

Threat To Yellowknife Of Bush Fire Passes .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Aug 18, 1939
The wind earned the fire to the shore, and residents of Yellowknife feared for a that sparks car ried across the bay might fire buildings and bush around ...

Yellowknife Gold Area Future Seen .As .Bright .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Dec 16, 1938
Minister, who visited the field this summer, told the engineers. Yellowknife lies about 800 miles from Edmon ton by air and is about 600 miles from ...

Yellowknife Said Growing Rapidly .
Buckingham Post - Google News Archive - Jan 27, 1939
OTTAWA, Canada Yellow— knife, Northwest Territories, was the most actively prospected gold area in Canada during 1938 according to the Department of Mines ...

Mosher Long Lac .Company Will Prospect In Yellowknife Area .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - May 7, 1938
Toronto. May 6.— Mosher Long Lac Gold Mines has taken a position In two prospecting expeditions In the Yellowknife area, Murdock Mosher. president, ...

You're In Yellowknife Area
Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive - Jul 31, 1939
from a bed that fits the hotel room so sandwich from the cook of the tightly they must have moved the Hudson's Bay's bed In first and built the room . ...

Hepburn First Guest Opens Register At New Yellowknife Hotel .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Jul 27, 1938
Premier Hepburn was the first guest to register at the new Yellowknife hotel now under construc tion. Several rooms were rushed to completion to ...

In Yellowknife Area Buffalo Canadian Purchases 8 Claim Transfers .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Jul 6, 1938
IN YELLOWKNIFE AREA Buffalo Canadian Purchases 8 Claim Transfers . special to The Gazette.) Toronto, July 5.— James Savage, president of Buffalo Canadian ...

Commerce Bank Opens Branch At Yellowknife .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Feb 7, 1938
The Yellowknife area has boon the scene of considerable mining exploration and development in re cent times. Consolidated Mining and Company of Canada has ...

Flew 5,000 Turkeys For Xmas in Arctic .
Buckingham Post - Google News Archive - Jan 6, 1939
More than half the Increase Is attributed to development recorded within the past year of Yellowknife, sprawling gold-mine town, 700 miles north of Edmonton ...

Science Winning Fight By Radio .
Miami News - Google News Archive - Oct 31, 1936
said the message tapped out from the camp at Yellowknife Bay gold camp. 830 air miles north of Edmonton, where Parres suffered from severe heart seizures, ...
Physician Works Over Air Waves . - Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive
Kadio Instructions Sent Into Arctic In Effort .To... - Berkeley Daily Gazette - Google News Archive

Pour First Gold Brick In Yellowknife Region .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Sep 8, 1938
of actual gold pro duction in the Northwest Territories, the first gold brick, weighing pounds, was poured Monday at tho Consolidated Mining and Smelting ...

Chan Yellowknife Mines .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Jun 13, 1938
have Just' In to the property, according to . word from the west and already have started to speed up the development by doubling the present crew. ...

Drill Results Yellowknife Claims Yield High Mineralization .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Sep 22, 1938
The Nalda Vein Is approximately 200 feet long with average width of 18 inches. The new discovery Is in a major shearing. Veins of quartz from 12 nches to 48 ...

Spectacular Gold Strike Made Near Yellowknife .
Buckingham Post - Google News Archive - Sep 16, 1938
It Is tho most significant turn that the whole Yellowknife rush has taken, U means that there Is a fertile field for prospecting In all the metasedlmont ...

Yellowknife Progresse .
Le Courrier De Bellechasse - Google News Archive - Oct 7, 1939
Une prometteuse te d'or faite pres du lac Desperation, a quelque 55 milles a Tes de Yellowknife, a stimule la prospection dans la region, ...

Burwash Knife .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Jul 17, 1935
Nothing more seems to have been heard of district until recently when Yellowknife Gold Mines, Limited, and Burwash Yellowknife Mines. ...

Mining Operations Increase In Nwt Activity Reported In Great Slave...
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Aug 21, 1936
Burwash Yellowknife Mines. Ventures Limited. 140 claims have been recorded but no complete report has been received from that area. the Great Bear Lake ...

Ottawa Confirms Mi, Gold Strike
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Sep 25, 1936
Interest in th? new strike is indicated by activity of companies engaged in prospecting and mining gin the Yellowknife mining division Approximately GOO ...

Mining Activity .In Nw Territories .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Sep 18, 1936
Interior, in regard to mining the Northwest Territories In the Yellowknife and Great Slave Lake area during August, fourteen miners' licences were issued ...

Erers In Northland Aid Arc Two Flown To Hospitals Sufferers .January ...
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Jan 3, 1939
to an Edmonton hos pital for treatment to his eyes, in jured in an explosion at the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company's plant at Yellowknife. ...

FAVORABLE MINE
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Sep 6, 1938
Indeed, the Yellowknife region appears to be something new in the sensational annals of Canadian mining. Prospectors and engineers art almost dazzled by the ...

23,000 Tons of Freight Car ried by Boats, 600 Tons by Airplane in...
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Jan 10, 1938
The report completion of a winter tractor road from Yellow knife Bay to the ... Brought to Yellowknife Bay during the water navigation season freight and ...

New Vein Discovered By
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Sep 1, 1938
Miles Flynn, president and consulting engineer of Chan Yellowknife Limited, who Is presently on the company's property In Yellowknife District, ...

Rich Gold Discovery North
Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive - Aug 5, 1938
Attention was directed to the whole north side of the lake by recent discoveries in the Yellowknife area and the present find is believed to be the result ...

Gold Mining Activity In NW Territories .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Oct 13, 1936
... Smith states that during September there 230 quart claims recorded at Gordon lake, 45 in other parts of the Yellowknife area, and 0 at Great Slave lake. ...


NAVIGATION NEAR END Northern Transportation Closes Busiest …
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Oct 23, 1937
Neither docs it include the shipments of fuel oil from Fort Norman to Yellowknife which are being handled In the new tanker barges built for Northern this ...

Indians Turn Down .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Jun 28, 1937
Led by their chiefs, members of the Yellowknife. Dog Ribs and other tribes scorned their regular yearly payment from the Canadian Government as Dr. Amyot ...

Pilot Flies Out With Ailing Man .
Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive - Nov 7, 1936
day after a daring ambulance flight by Harry Hayler lo the isolated Yellowknife Bay mining camp, 300 miles north of here. Fort Smith is about 535 air miles ...

Think Erratic .Ir Compass .Caused Airmen's Plight .
Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive - Sep 18, 1936
they had obtained nd from trappers during their ny In the wilderness was considerd remote as they were stranded on he fringe of the Yellowknife game ...

Gold Brick Is Poured .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Feb 23, 1939
February 22— Start of production in the second mill at Yellowknife gold field on the shore of Great Slave Lake was marked with the pouring of a gold brick ...

CANADA OPENS GOLD DIGGINGS IN NEW AREAS Minor Mining Boom …
Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive - Mar 18, 1936
The most valuable discoveries were made in the Yellowknife district in the Northwest Territories, where nearly 3.000 square miles of good gold prospecting ...

One-year Trade Pact .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Feb 8, 1939
The Yellowknife petition seeks exception to the long-establish e rule so that mining community o 600 or 700 may have its beer parlors. ...

Film Companies Go Far Afield In Search of Unused Territory .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Aug 13, 1938
Construction has started on a theatre at Yellowknife, Yukon, which will be the most northerly theatre in Canada. The house is be.

Commodity Markets .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Sep 9, 1938
All mining eyes arc turning to ward Yellowknife. It looks like a big new source of mineral wealth and profit. In this week's Financial Post a staff writer ...

Mining Men Elected .North West Territories .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Dec 14, 1939
... Coun cil rejected ejected a petition voters rs asking postponement of establishment of a local administration in Yellowknife district. ...

ROAD IS APPROVED MINING FIELDS Winter Traction Path Will Connect …
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - Feb 8, 1939
Departmental officials expect that next year the pitchblende concentrates from Eldorada Mines, gold concentrates from the Yellowknife Mines and the fish ...

Service Re-opens .Spring Break In Ring Break-up Up In Nwt Sets New …
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - May 8, 1939
Small- ada aviation. fires were reported in Only five days after the last 1 and Graham Townships and near flights on skis were made from the Yellowknife ...

PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT Can. Airways Preparing for Busy Season .
Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive - May 31, 1938
being equipped with floats preparatory to being put in service in tho Goldfields and Yellowknife areas. When this is accomplished the company's fleet will ...

No Objection To Return .
Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive - Apr 10, 1939
The road Is designed to provide a shorter route to the Yellowknife gold mining field. Landed in New York .Associated Press NEW YORK. ...

Unconscious .And .Left Car Demonstrated Smashed By Insurgents .
Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive - Jul 2, 1938
... of Mines and Resources announced today that a settle ment will be laid out as soon as possible at Yellowknife on the north shore of Great Slave Lake. ...

Spectacular .Development In In The Mining Industry Of Canada .
Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive - May 12, 1939
Thus, in 1938 in addition to the establishment of the Yellowknife gold fields in the Northwest, the proving of the exist ence of deep deposits of crude oil ...

Planes Carry Gold Miners Daily to Northern Fields .
Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive - Jul 5, 1938
The rush this year is concentrating around Yellowknife and Gordon Lake, athabasca usually bustling with activity at this time of the year, is not enjoying ...

Here Goes Another American Market .
Milwaukee Sentinel - Google News Archive - Aug 30, 1939
Northwest territories and up to now they been without a single liquor store Now the provincia liquor commission will open one at Yellowknife, a mining camp ...

New Copper Deposits .
Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive - Dec 8, 1939
8— New discoveries of copper ore 150 miles southeast of Yellowknife, flourishing sub-arctic mining camp, have been reported. They are expected to give added ...

Province of of Saskatchewan .
Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive - Jul 24, 1939
think muchi of Then, with half a ,ton of cartonned liquor, bound for Yellowknife , In the hold of the Junkers, the pilot roared out of the bay with such a ...

The Progress Of Man .
Reading Eagle - Google News Archive - Sep 18, 1939
Now the provincial liquor commission will open one at Yellowknife, a mining camp on re mote Great Slave Lake. Supplies will have to come by air.

Northernmost Rail Town Booms as Ambitious Neighbor Takes Long …
Herald-Journal - Google News Archive - Apr 30, 1938
Typical distances from Water ways to the mining camps are: Goldfields, 300 miles ; Yellowknife. 615 miles; Eldorado radium mine, lone source of radium on the ...

Transportation Increases In Northwest Territories .
Buckingham Post - Google News Archive - Jan 21, 1938
Brought to Yellowknife Bay during the water navigation season, freight and supplies are re-shipped 75 milea by tractor at much cheaper rates than the former ...

Daring New York Youths End Long Canoe Voyage .
Pueblo Indicator - Google News Archive - Sep 16, 1939
Once the two reversed the procedure and took a passenger, a gold miner bound for Yellowknife, down the Athabasca river with them in the canoe.

Modern Spring Gold Rush Is Hurried With Air Transports .
Southeast Missourian - Google News Archive - May 30, 1938
... miners and their supplies to otherwise in accessible placer and .hydraulic operations. this year is concentrating"" around Yellowknife and Gordon Lake. ...

Hordes Rush to New Goldfield .
Mt. Adams Sun - Google News Archive - Sep 30, 1938
They are Goldfields, on Lake Athabasca; Saskatchewan, on the north border of North West Territories; Yellowknife. test of the wealth of the new fields will ...

Caribou Meat Keeps Trapper .
Buckingham Post - Google News Archive - Feb 24, 1939
Yellowknife Is on the shore of Great Slave Lake, 1105 miles north of Edmon- . of food. Ho ran out of shells In a month but In that time killed about 35 ...






















































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