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| Photo by Lindsay, ivebeenbit.caFort Smith is home to the Wood Buffalo National Park, which is the largest national park in Canada and the second-largest in the world.
It was established in 1922 to protect the world’s largest herd of free-roaming wood bison, currently estimated at more than 5,000.
Photo: Darren Roberts, NWT Tourism
The Radium King was built in 1937 to haul ore on the Mackenzie River, and her tributaries. This included uranium used in the US atom bombs of World War II. Later in her active career, she hauled barges on Great Slave Lake.
In 1967 the boat was retired. Currently, she is on display outside the Northern Life Museum.
The night is wrapped up with viewing our pristine northern skies, and with some luck, an aurora borealis display.
The annual Dark Sky Festival is hosted typically mid-to-late August in Fort Smith NT and the world’s largest dark sky preserve Wood Buffalo National Park.
Join us for an exciting multi-day journey of exploring the wonders of our universe and the sciences that makes it all work.
Our program offers a variety of afternoon activities and workshops for all members of the family and then it continues with evening events.
Photo: Mike Vassal, CBC
Fort Smith Mission Heritage Park is all that remains of the original 151 acres / 61 hectare Oblate Catholic Mission.
For a period of a century between 1876 and the early 1980s, the Roman Catholic Church operated its mission to the entire western arctic from here.
The Fort Smith Mission Historic Park contains the only remaining official Catholic Bishop’s residence in the Northwest Territories.
The Rusty Raven is a gallery and gift shop specializing in custom framing, northern art and crafts and great tea and specialty coffee.
Richard Van Camp is well-known as an Indigenous author (Tłı̨chǫ Nation) and storyteller/writer for writing novels, short stories, and other writing crafts. Richard was born and raised in Fort Smith.
He is the author of 24 books. He also had a film adaptation of one of his popular novels called The Lesser Blessed. The film was released in 2012.
