We were having such a great time on our trip to Canada that we decided to visit the Northwest Territories. It was very beautiful; it was huge, but also extremely cold. The Northwest Territories are in the northern part of Canada. It is colder in the Northwest Territories because they are further away from the equator. Not many people live in the Northwest Territories. There are so few people there that it is only the 11th populated out of all 13 Canadian provinces! The population is also small because the soil is rugged and not very good for farming.
This is how it all began. We drove east from the Yukon Territory to the Northwest Territories to Inuvik. There are 3,300 people living in Inuvik and when we arrived we saw children doing many fun activities. We saw them doing things like indoor swimming and building sandcastles at an Arctic beach. Then we did something we all thought was really fun. We went fishing in the Eskimo Lakes but we didn't catch any fish. It was daylight the entire time we were in Inuvik. In June and July there is daylight for 24 hours a day (that's the entire day!) We saw planes taking off for the Arctic Ocean. We traveled further east to fish in the Amundsen Gulf. However, there we saw many animals and still didn't catch anything. We were hoping to see polar bears but instead we saw beluga whales. They were huge!
Then we flew south along the MacKenzie River all the way to Tulita. Tulita, which means where two rivers meet. We were getting hungry so we decided to have lunch. There were not many people in the restaurant, Tulita only has 400 residents. We decide to go to the Great Bear Lake and give the fishing one more try. We are really terrible at this fishing stuff!
We headed south to Yellowknife because it is the capital and largest city and in the Northwest Territories. 17,500 people live there. Yellowknife is a huge and beautiful city. We wanted to see the "aurora borealis" (Northern Lights) but we came at the wrong time of year. We went to the Northern Frontier Visitors Centre. They told us that they are usually only seen from October to February. We were very disappointed. Instead, we decided to look at information of Yellowknife at the public library. We found out that Yellowknife is named after the Yellowknife Dene who moved into the Yellowknife are in the early 1800's. We enjoyed our visit to the Northwest Territories, now it's time to fly to Alberta.
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