The Northwest Territories cover approximately one-third of Canada. Given that Canada is the second-largest country in the world, it can therefore be said without fear of contradiction that the NWT is rather large.
Unlike its human population, which is rather small: a mere 55,000 people. Almost a third of these live in the territory's capital, Yellowknife, on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake. The rest are . . . out there! Not that many travelers ever meet them. Not properly.
The NWT is no stranger to tourism. For years well-heeled visitors of the huntin', shootin', fishin' kind flew into the region's remote lodges, hunted, shot, fished and then flew out again. They shot grizzly bears, wolves, whales (no, really, some big-game hunters actually shot whales), caribou and musk ox. They fished land-locked Arctic char of prodigious proportions, and other species of trout weighing up to 30 kg.