"The City of Yellowknife", part of the series "Sketches of Our Town." The video, hosted and narrated by Harvey Kirck, was filmed in the fall of 1991. It depicts Yellowknife past and present, and includes archival material, and interviews with residents Michael Borden, Dave Lovell, Barb Cameron, Walt Humphries and pilot Jim McAvoy.
A most enjoyable film. I noted a wooden boat at 20:51, just behind the tail of a Cessna 185. Anyone know if that boat was called GiGi at one time? The hull, if it is GiGi, I built in 1963 and then sold early that summer to another guy who finished off the topsides, and named it. I built another a few years later, calling it Kon-Tiki-Too. Always wondered whatever happened to those boats. Anyway....good to see YK of the past, though we left in 67. Great memories.
Wowzers, this needs to come with a warning that that is the most one-sided depiction of Yk possible. Just call it an ad for the old mines, because it was sure not the Yk I grew up in.
This is Rene the composer. I'll ask Conrad. I suppose it's a tall order to do all these shows. I guess you get what you can and that's what he got some 20 years ago. I still like all the scenes and history in all the shows.
