Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, is an isolated mining ... tundra and water—most notably, the enormous Great Slave Lake, on whose shore the city is built.

The Mackenzie River originates from the Great Slave Lake ... summer and fall at Point Lake located in the Taiga Shield Ecozone where I experience Canada’s Northwest Territories wilderness ...

Topping the list of Canada’s huge lakes is Lake Superior. Shared with the United States, the lake covers over 82,100 square ...

As of Wednesday, there were 1,054 active wildfires in Canada, including 230 in the Northwest Territories and 669 ... of some 3,000 further south on Great Slave Lake, had stalled overnight.