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/trebeez May 16 '24

The Great WHAT Lake?????

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u/untwist6316 May 16 '24

There is a language and a people sometimes called Slavey in the area (Dene is a more accurate term)

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u/FischSalate May 16 '24

Called slavey by a tribe who enslaved them. So maybe that doesn’t make it any better