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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Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or residents:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)