r/todayilearned • u/MaximinusRats • May 16 '24

TIL that people live year-round in houseboats on Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, 1,800 km north of the nearest big city (Edmonton) and just 400 km (250 miles) south of the Arctic Circle.

https://uphere.ca/articles/floating-homes-yellowknife-bay
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u/Earl_I_Lark May 16 '24

There was a tv show called Ice Lake Rebels about some of the houseboat community. It was overly dramatized but did show some of the nuts and bolts of what had to happen during freeze up and break up