Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg free july Canada Yellowknife losing feel of last Frontier historic neighbourhood vanishing by Bob Weber Canadian press Yellowknife Jonas John son has lived 50 years in various squatters shacks in Yel in knifes old if he hed live there 50 i got no time for those apartments Johnson says outside the construction he Calls you can stick them up your you can do what you Here is the a collection of shacks and Cabins tumbled out along the Shore of great slave Lake that counts As a historic Neighbour Hood in Yellowknife Brief dating from the 1930s and the eccentric Homes were built by the men and women who pioneered the but the feel of Canadas last fron tier is fading from its most northerly capital As More and More of the old shacks Are torn five buildings have been removed from the area in the last year says Steve fan a local architect and member of the old Stope Only a dozen or so Are left in the two lock its the Wood Yards last says in its the Woodyard was a Community of hard living prospectors and fishermen with names like snooze Anton and the swinging their Cabins had names like the slant six so called because of the number of directions its four Walls seemed to Many of the tiny Cabins were dragged on to the publicly owned land under cover of most were decorated with everything from old licence plates and snowshoes to mock historic signs and elaborate Flower heated with Oil their services consisted of water barrels and portable Johnson came in 1947 to fish and still works deep in the Bush for Days at a time living of a diet of Bologna sausage and he remembers wild times in the parties one group of Dia mond drillers would get out of the up a Koto Jonas Johnson stands in front of his Home in Yellowknife vanishing old Bush and Start to party and when they were tired another group would replace it was it was also a Good place to grow up with its own sense of says Jeff a Pilot who grew up in the 1970s in a hut backing on to ragged ass the Wood Yards main it used to be Nice when i was a there were a lot of old Guys around and they were but the last 10 years have been hard on the area the local paper once called a Beautiful Yellowknife population has grown to from in the past Rocher says a Lakeside lot now Sells for up to with property taxes to and the City has decided to turn the Woodyard into a waterfront As the real Woodyard fades into the Canadian museum of civilization in has built a full scale replica of one of the old towns bes known build Ings the 1937 Wildcat imitation ragged ass Road Street signs Are hot Sellers at local souvenir but the Wood Yards time is says i miss what it used to be but its not like that any the Wood Yards not going to be around cars trucks Cost less at the wild mile dealers Why buy anywhere else 1997 Malibu overdrive Antilock dual air tinted dual air rear visor vanity pulse Block and 97 Cavalier 4 Down Down Down 97 Camaro free Witiw Jasw Theveny 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