Random Yellowknife Facts

1) Population is 20 000 people
2) The town is built on permafrost
3) The liscence plates in NWT are shaped like polar bears (way better than a boring rectangle if you ask me)
4) The name comes from the copper knives used by Aboriginal people back in the day- The explorer Samuel Hearne trekked through the area in 1770, and encountered Aboriginal people who used copper-bladed knives. Their rendezvous place in a bay near the mouth of a river on Great Slave Lake became known as Yellowknife.
5) It pretty multi-cultural- its estimated that 25 languages are spoken here (including the eight official territorial languages).
6)A prospector, enroute to the Klondike, first reported gold in Yellowknife Bay in 1898, and the find was confirmed in 1905 by 1937 Yellowknife was a boom town.
7)The Saloon is actually the strip club
8)Yellowknife was named capital of the Northwest Territories in 1967, when the territorial government moved from Ottawa, Ontario.
9)There used to be gold but now there's diamonds (don't expect any diamonds as souveniers though.