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My townhouse is in the middle somewhere. Very boring looking housing right in the middle of the melting season.
A very white kitchen. I don't like new houses and this one still has that strange wet paint smell sometimes. Though the large amount of cubbard and counter space makes cooking somewhat complicated meals easier.
One thing I really enjoy about the house is that it is right on the edge of a very large, quiet woodlot. This is a view out of my bedroom window taken last week (all the snow is gone now!)
Taken from a BBQ we had last week to celebrate warmth. The one in the middle is my roommate Graham. Super nice guy but his constant working out and eating well sometimes makes me feel a bit like a slob.
My brother's roommate Pat (who I knew from Toronto) and his lovely girlfriend Shannon. About once a month those two well go on a drinking tear and you just have to hold on for dear life.
My brother talking with Tarik and Kersten who are two friends from Dillon. Tarik burned me the entire first season of Kenny vs Spenny and I am forever greatful as it was the only thing that got me through being sick a while ago.
The main drag (Franklin).
NWT Legislature
My office. I suppose now that i'm full time I should put up some maps or something.
Downtown Yellowknife.
On top of the hill behind my house looking back.
Downtown again
Last one is of the Con Mine from behind my house. It is the tallest structure in Yellowknife.
This leads me to Giant Mine in Yellowknife. I'm not sure if you have heard about it but it was the oldest Goldmine (closed in 2002) in Yellowknife and pretty much the main employer for 40 years. The minesite is within the city limits and now has about 60 deserted houses, a store, bar and curling rink on the site. In 1992 there was a really bad strike for about a year that really divided a town. They brought in scab workers and one of the mine employees actually set a bomb inside the mine killing 9 of the scabs. It was a huge story and I think they actually made a CBC movie of the week about it a couple of years ago. I can't believe how much of a taboo subject it is in Yellowknife. Nobody talks about it and if they do it is in a whisper. I only found out about the story about a month after moving up here and this is a town where people love to talk about the past. Anyway they are undergoing remediation of the site and trying to get rid of all the containments. A large chunk of the site where all the houses were etc has been leased to the city and Dillon was hired to create land use proposals for the site. I didn't actually work on this at all but they just finished the report, it is over 100 pages long and there isn't a single! mention of the miners who were murdered, not any mention of a memmorial, not a word. Isn't that bonkers!
Geez, what a rant eh. I always feel a bit vain posting so many pictures and uhm words but whatever.
Time to prep a stew for tomorrow, followed by sleep.
My townhouse is in the middle somewhere. Very boring looking housing right in the middle of the melting season.
A very white kitchen. I don't like new houses and this one still has that strange wet paint smell sometimes. Though the large amount of cubbard and counter space makes cooking somewhat complicated meals easier.
One thing I really enjoy about the house is that it is right on the edge of a very large, quiet woodlot. This is a view out of my bedroom window taken last week (all the snow is gone now!)
Taken from a BBQ we had last week to celebrate warmth. The one in the middle is my roommate Graham. Super nice guy but his constant working out and eating well sometimes makes me feel a bit like a slob.
My brother's roommate Pat (who I knew from Toronto) and his lovely girlfriend Shannon. About once a month those two well go on a drinking tear and you just have to hold on for dear life.
My brother talking with Tarik and Kersten who are two friends from Dillon. Tarik burned me the entire first season of Kenny vs Spenny and I am forever greatful as it was the only thing that got me through being sick a while ago.
The main drag (Franklin).
NWT Legislature
My office. I suppose now that i'm full time I should put up some maps or something.
Downtown Yellowknife.
On top of the hill behind my house looking back.
Downtown again
Last one is of the Con Mine from behind my house. It is the tallest structure in Yellowknife.
This leads me to Giant Mine in Yellowknife. I'm not sure if you have heard about it but it was the oldest Goldmine (closed in 2002) in Yellowknife and pretty much the main employer for 40 years. The minesite is within the city limits and now has about 60 deserted houses, a store, bar and curling rink on the site. In 1992 there was a really bad strike for about a year that really divided a town. They brought in scab workers and one of the mine employees actually set a bomb inside the mine killing 9 of the scabs. It was a huge story and I think they actually made a CBC movie of the week about it a couple of years ago. I can't believe how much of a taboo subject it is in Yellowknife. Nobody talks about it and if they do it is in a whisper. I only found out about the story about a month after moving up here and this is a town where people love to talk about the past. Anyway they are undergoing remediation of the site and trying to get rid of all the containments. A large chunk of the site where all the houses were etc has been leased to the city and Dillon was hired to create land use proposals for the site. I didn't actually work on this at all but they just finished the report, it is over 100 pages long and there isn't a single! mention of the miners who were murdered, not any mention of a memmorial, not a word. Isn't that bonkers!
Geez, what a rant eh. I always feel a bit vain posting so many pictures and uhm words but whatever.
Time to prep a stew for tomorrow, followed by sleep.