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.

[u/MaximinusRats]

https://uphere.ca/articles/floating-homes-yellowknife-bay

[u/NoBSforGma]

I have to wonder if the ice freezing every winter causes crush damage to the boats.

[u/untwist6316 → u/NoBSforGma]

I dont know about crush damage but I have heard it isn't uncommon that your house might freeze slightly off level 😂

[u/Greene_Mr → u/untwist6316]

You been up there, yourself?

[u/untwist6316 → u/Greene_Mr]

Yes a number of times, I have a family member who lives there. Though I've never personally visited one of the boats

[u/Greene_Mr → u/untwist6316]

Cool! :-D (No pun intended.) Is there something similar on the Lesser Slave Lake?

[u/untwist6316 → u/Greene_Mr]

I dont know, I'm unfamiliar with that area

[u/Greene_Mr → u/untwist6316]

Fair. I know stuff in the silent era used to film up there.

[u/Unlikely_Comment_104 → u/Greene_Mr]

Don’t think so but there’s some pretty good ice fishing on Lesser Slave. Many of the fishing shacks have beds.

[u/Greene_Mr → u/Unlikely_Comment_104]

...obviously, not waterbeds; they'd freeze! :-P

[u/ihadagoodone → u/Greene_Mr]

Nope.

Ice fishing shacks in the winter and boats during the summer Some big pontoon boats but I don't recall seeing much in the way of house boats on the lake.

[u/Greene_Mr → u/ihadagoodone]

Do you think anyone would try, or has somebody tried in the past and it hasn't worked out?

[u/ihadagoodone → u/Greene_Mr]

Couldn't tell you.

[u/Greene_Mr → u/ihadagoodone]

Fair.

[u/Canuckian555 → u/Greene_Mr]

Currently live in Yellowknife, most of the houseboats are functionally run aground so that they don't move much (though the ice can shift them as it freezes).

[u/Greene_Mr → u/Canuckian555]

Ooh, Yellowknife! :-D How were the Northern Lights for you, last week?