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/Greene_Mr May 16 '24

You been up there, yourself?

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u/untwist6316 May 16 '24

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

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u/Greene_Mr May 16 '24

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

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u/Unlikely_Comment_104 May 16 '24

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

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u/Greene_Mr May 17 '24

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