Notable Residents
- Alex Debogorski, local truck driver and personality on Ice Road Truckers.
- Margot Kidder, film and television actress best known for playing Lois Lane in the Superman movies of the 1970s and 1980s.
- Kevin Koe, World Champion Curler.
- Tobias Mehler, film and television actor best known for his roles on Battlestar Galactica and Stargate SG-1.
- Vic Mercredi, Métis hockey player, first person born in the NWT to be drafted into the National Hockey League.
- Dustin Milligan, film and television actor; lead actor in the first season of the Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff.
- John Sissons, politician and the first judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories.
- Les Stroud, film maker and survival expert best known as the host of the television program Survivorman.
- Max Ward, pioneering bush pilot and founder of Wardair airlines (later sold to Canadian Airlines).
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“a notable prince that was called King John;
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“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
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