That was 26 years ago and we are still here and we raised our family here As an historian, I am leery of changing names simply because of the political and cultural sensitivities and flavours of the present. Fair enough. He says when he found a job opening in a place called Slave Lake, a couple of thoughts came to mind. The other was that it might have got its name from the punishment of slaves for rebellious behaviour. He thought it might have been associated with the drowning of slaves. As for the reality versus the expectations, he says he expected a bigger and more bustling place.
Instead what we saw and continue to see is the well-settled community; people are not in a rush. People can still nod their heads, smile at you sometimes or sometimes greet you on the trails.
In the corridors people hold doors for each other. You may be surprised to find colorful western tanagers and rare whistling swans. More common aquatic birds include loons, with their haunting call; grebes; and mergansers. You will most certainly be serenaded non-stop by the ubiquitous white-throated-sparrow. Deh Cho Bridge. The town is known for the wide selection of First Nations arts and crafts, handmade anoraks, and parkas.
Boats can be rented at the filling stations in the town. The famous American Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin chose Fort Providence as the starting point for his journeys of discovery to the Barren Grounds in At the western end of town stands a memorial to the American explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie, who stopped off in Fort Providence in in the course of his putative trek to the Pacific Ocean, which he hoped would take him to the Arctic Ocean.
It was an important center, with light freighters bringing goods from Fort McMurray up the Slave River. The trading post lies southwest of the main estuary of Slave River. Fort Resolution is the oldest town in the Northwest Territories. For a surreal experience, be sure to stop in at the abandoned mining town of Pine Point.
You'll see Mother Nature hard at work converting what was at one time the largest mining town in the north, back to its original state. This is the closest town to the northern end of Wood Buffalo National Park. Just northwest of town is the massive Snake River delta. Canada Travel Guide. Great Slave Lake Gold prospectors who passed here on the way to the Klondike in reported on the region's beauty, but nobody wanted to come here.
The northern lights start to appear in August and run right through until May. Soaring above the lake on the hunt for an unsuspecting fish are bald eagles and osprey. The town has a beautiful white church, Our Lady of Providence RC Mission At the western end of town stands a memorial to the American explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie, who stopped off in Fort Providence in in the course of his putative trek to the Pacific Ocean, which he hoped would take him to the Arctic Ocean.
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