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FAST FACTS | CANADA WEATHER Our summers are incredible. Not too warm (though we usually have a stretch or two of 30°

C) filled with sunshine and socializing, festivals SIMPSON JASON IT’S TIME TO LOOK UP and other community gatherings. Plus, it rarely rains and every year we have more hours of Yellowknife sunshine than just about anywhere else. But even our cold winters are nothing to be scared There are more of. Dress properly, and you’re ready for anything. than 15 km’s of trails Our biomass district plus 19 playgrounds, 11 energy system won a MONTH Jan Feb March April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec sport fields, 10 sport courts, Federation of Canadian 4 off-leash dog areas and Municipalities 2018 AVERAGE -25° -20° -11° 0° 10° 18° 21° 18° 10° 1° -11° -20° HIGH 6 outdoor skating rinks (in Sustainable Communities About 700 recreation winter) to be discovered Awards. & leisure programs are within Yellowknife city offered year-round in VISITOR SERVICES SIGNATURE EVENTS limits. our Recreation Guide. Visitor services are located in the Yellowknifers love festivals, and we have plenty of them main level of City Hall and offered year-round. Some of the larger events include: over the phone, by mail, email and Folk on the Rocks – Blending northern and southern through social media (Facebook & sounds to create an incredibly special event. Instagram). www.folkontherocks.com Visit www.extraordinaryyk.com NWT Pride – The only festival celebrating LGBTQ+ people in the Northwest Territories! www.rainbowcoalitionyk.org CONTACT OUR TOURISM TEAM Old Town Ramble & Ride – An arts and cultural tour of Toll free North America Yellowknife’s historic heart. www.oldtownyk.com (877) 881.4262 Snow King Winter Festival – During the month of March, [email protected] enjoy this beautiful castle of snow. www.snowking.ca Long John Jamboree – Ice sculptures, fireworks and crazy contests. www.longjohnjamboree.ca NAKA - A celebration of aurora and culture. www.yellowknife.ca/naka Find more events at www.yellowknife.ca/calendar

our Contact the City of Yellowknife [email protected] BOB WILSON BOB Chief Drygeese Territory Yellowknife (967) 920-5660 ANGELA GZOWSKI Home of the Yellowknives First Nation

ANGELA GZOWSKI LONG JOHN JAMBOREE LONG

Chief Drygeese Territory www.yellowknife.ca Home of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation (867)920-5600 | [email protected]

MARTIN MALE MARTIN UPDATED FEBRUARY 2019 INVEST LIVE BUSINESS RESOURCES The capital of the Northwest Territories, this LARGE-SCALE CLIENTS: Business Development www.nwtcfa.ca/Akaitcho.htm Corporation REAL BALANCE YELLOWKNIFE HOUSE remarkably cosmopolitan city of roughly 20,000 is MINING AND GOVERNMENT filled with well-educated families earning some of BizPal www.yellowknife.ca/bizpal Imagine life with a 10-minute commute on RE-SALE MARKET Canada’s highest household incomes and spending As the northern business and residential hub for NWT’s foot, weekends off and leisure time to pursue Average 2017 Sale Price $408,290 diamond mines, Yellowknife supports an industry that Business Development www.bdic.ca 46 percent more than the Canadian household Bank of Canada a hobby. Now imagine an employer offering average.1 Yellowknife serves as the commercial created $1.2 billion in expenditures and employed over generous vacation leave from the day you’re Source: CMHC 2018 Northern Housing Report 3 CDETNO www.cdetno.com supply hub for projects and communities across the 3,400 workers in 2017. All three diamond mines are hired and great benefits for you and your entire NWT, which more than doubles the size of the approximately 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife. City of Yellowknife www.yellowknife.ca/business family, both of which are common here. market. YELLOWKNIFE RENTAL The total estimated value of minerals produced in the ANGELA GZOWSKI Metis Dene Development Fund www.nwtmddf.com MARKET Northwest Territories in 2017 was $2.07 billion, of which CULTURE NWT Chamber of Commerce www.nwtchamber.com diamonds account for 99.5 percent of the value. Yellowknife is located on Chief Drygeese Vacancy Rate 5% AVERAGE INCOME(2016) Territory, home and land of the Yellowknives Two bedroom apartment rent $1688/month The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) NWT & Nunavut Chamber of Mines www.miningnorth.com Dene First Nation. In addition, Yellowknife is is Yellowknife’s largest employer and an important client MiningNorthWorks! www.miningnorthworks.com Source: CMHC Rental Market Report (Fall 2018) home to many other Indigenous populations for many businesses. In 2018, counting only contracts Type Yellowknife Canada including and Metis and has a long history Find any address in Yellowknife, using the greater than $5000, the GNWT spent more Support for Entrepreneurs and www.iti.gov.nt.ca/en/ser- ENERGY Economic Development (SEED) vices/support-entrepre- of welcoming newcomers from across the civic address search using our online mapping Family $157,494 $103,413 than $205 million on goods and services.4 neurs-and-economic-devel- country and the world. software, CityExplorer. opment-seed Personal $72,176 $47,091 The Giant Mine Remediation Project, located just outside of Yellowknife’s city centre is expected to cost nearly Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce www.ykchamber.com (Statistics Canada) CELEBRATING OUR RESIDENTS $1 billion dollars, much of which will likely be spent Commercial Residential FACILITIES AND SERVICES in Yellowknife. Procurement opportunities are being Power Rate Power Rate As a capital city, Yellowknife has a hospital, as The people who call Yellowknife home create the cultural vibrancy and make the city a managed by Public Works and Government Services 15.99 23.72 well as a number of medical and dental clinics. 50,233 visitors signed in From law and accounting to massage therapy, fantastic place to live. This is why we celebrate In 2017, GDP in the Northwest Territories (NWT) at thecents Yellowknife Visitors cents Yellowknife has just about any service you’d Yellowknifers in our many campaigns. per kWh per kWh increased by 5.1%, stronger than at any point since TOURISM Centre in 2016. find in a larger city. 2007. The largest contributor to this growth was

PASCALINE GRÉAU AND increased mine production. Mine production in our DENIS BOURGEOIS PARENTS OF LÉO GREAT PLACE TO They say it takes a village to 2017 was up 37% from 2016 to $2.07billion due to 25,264 visitors signed in raise a child and Yellowknife has definitely been that village for us. RAISE KIDS We were very surprised by the commercial operations at Gahcho Kué diamond at the Yellowknife Visitors Yellowknife community spirit and the support TAXES we received after Léo was born. There are so many groups that work 2 Centre in 2018. hard to offer kid’s activities and mine near Yellowknife. Yellowknife is a young community with a to make Yellowknife a family and breastfeeding friendly place to live. Source: From personal to corporate, the NWT’s tax rates are Being involved on the board of Léo’s median age of 34.8. With so many young daycare is a way to give back to other 1 parents in the community. Survey of Household Spending, Statistics Canada competitive. Our small business corporate income tax families, there is a wide range of schooling 2Natural Resources Canada: Annual Statistics of Mineral is 4 percent and 11.5 percent for larger companies. Production, April 9, 2018. options, including public and Catholic 203.4 million dollars was There’s also no retail sales tax on goods sold in education systems, as well as early-year yellowknife.ca [email protected] injected into the NWT economy from the NWT, though the five percent Goods and Services and primary Montessori, French and French (867) 920-5600 tourism related spending in 2017/2018. Tax still applies. immersion.

There are also incredible national and international sports and cultural opportunities In 2017/18 112,530 people visited NWT. for children in Yellowknife, from playing sports Of those 76,730 (68%) were leisure visitors at the Canada Summer Games to performing at and 35,800 (32%) travelling for business. the circumpolar Arctic Winter Games. 45% of leisure visitors indicated their main Get a taste of YK life at the City’s YouTube purpose of travel was for Aurora Viewing. channel – www.youtube.com/cityofyellowknife Followed by General Touring and Visiting Friends & Relatives.5 or through our virtual tours: www.yellowknife.ca/virtualtours.

Source: 3NRCAN: Canada’s Mineral Production Preliminary Estimates 4www.miningnorth.com/chamber-news 5 LONE SORENSEN LONE GNWT– Industry, Tourism and Investment FRAN HURCOMB