Yellowknife’s Time Line By 3 M Range Lake Elementary Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
3. 962 Billion Years Ago Age of the world’s oldest rock found north of Yellowknife
12 000 Years Ago Dene arrived in the NWT
10 000 Years Ago End of the last Ice Age
4 500 Years Ago Pre-Dorset people arrived in the Canadian Arctic (ancestors of today’s Inuit people)
2 700 Years Ago Evidence of NWT Dorset or Tunit people
1576 Drawing by Lucas de. Heere portrays an Inuk taken captive by Frobisher (the explorer)
1577 Frobisher went to mine the black rock in the NWT
1719 (June) Captain James Knight, a former Hudson’s Bay Company employee, sailed from England to northern Canada in search of gold, copper and a Northwest Passage
1769 Remains of a house built from ship materials was found on Marble Island (almost 50 years after Knight disappeared
1818 Britain begins a serious effort to find the Northwest Passage
1819 Parry’s expedition spent the winter of 1819 -1820 on Melville Island, NWT
1820 Sir John Franklin’s men built Fort Enterprise to serve as a base camp on their way to the Arctic Ocean
1825 Hostile encounters with Inuit at the mouth of the Mackenzie River almost ended the 1825 -27 expedition
1875 Canada’s 1 st Recorded Coal Mine -Ellesmere Island, NWT
1875 Canada’s 1 st Recorded Coal Mine -Ellesmere Island, NWT
1896 Gold Discovery Yellowknife Bay NWT
1903 The Northwest Passage was traveled by boat with a Norwegian crew of 7
1920 NWT Oil Rush Imperial Oil Find near present day Norman Well
1921 (March 27) the first aircraft lands in the NWT
1926 First mineral exploration flight to the NWT
1929 Gilbert La. Bine found uranium around Great Bear Lake. This started the first mine in the NWT called the Eldorado mine. First ‘air mail’ to NWT
1933 Thousands of gold claims were staked near the Yellowknife River
1934 Discovery of gold in the Yellowknife area Prospectors stake claims and live in this area which is the beginning of today’s city of Yellowknife, NWT
1935 The original 21 Giant Gold Mine claims were staked by C. J Baker and H. M. Muir
1937 Giant Yellowknife Mines, Ltd. was incorporated RCMP Division founded in the NWT
1938 1 st NWT Gold Brick Poured by Con Mine @ Yellowknife
1941 Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mines, Ltd. worked 46 claims at Thompson Lake (about 70 km N. E. of Yellowknife
1948 Giant Gold Mine Opens in Yellowknife
1950 A Jackleg drill was used to break open rock in the gold mines
1960 Mackenzie Highway built ending at Yellowknife, NWT
1967 Kimberlite Pipes Found Sommerset Island, NWT
1969 Lupin Gold Discovery (Lac De Gras, NWT area)
1970’s Small Scale Diamond Exploration (NWT)
1980 1 st Lupin Winter Ice Road Built
1981 Chuck Fipke collected sediment samples near Black Water Lake, NWT
1987 The Pine Point lead and zinc mine closed
1991 Charles Fipke discovered a kimberlite pipe under Lac de Gras, NWT
1992 NWT Diamond Staking Rush Lac de Gras
1993 BHP opens Koala Camp (future Ekati Mine) (Sept) Diavik Project office opened in Yellowknife Diavik discovers first 3 kimberlite pipes
1996 Snap Lake Diamond Discovery by Windspear & Aber Resources
1997 Winter Ice Road Traffic to Northern Mines: 3 500 truckloads 100 000 tonnes Construction begins at BHP ‘s Mine
1998 Winter Ice Road Traffic to Northern Mines: 2 543 truckloads 82 000 tonnes (Jan) Echo Bay Lupin Gold Mine Closed BHP Diamonds started mining diamonds at their Ekati Mine
1999 Winter Ice Road Traffic: 1 844 truckloads 57 000 tonnes Open 57 days; Feb 1 -Mar 30 (Apr 1) Division of Northwest Territories creates Nunavut, Canada’s 3 rd Territory (Jun 14) Sirius Diamonds NWT Ltd. opens Cutting & Polishing facility in Yellowknife
2000 Winter Ice Road Traffic : 3 959 truckloads 125 380 tonnes Open 56 days; Feb 10 -Apr 5
2001 Winter Ice Road Traffic: 7 981 truckloads 22 725 tonnes Open 49 days; Feb 24 -Apr 14 (Jan) Diavik Mine Construction Begins -approx 1000 workers on site
2002 Winter Ice Road Traffic: 7 768 truckloads 230 000 tonnes Open 68 days; Feb 11 -Apr 20
2003 Diavik Diamond Mines project scheduled to begin production
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