New Air Services and Canoeing Base for CNA, 2009
Our most exciting news are consturcting our building project at the North-Wright Airways float base in Norman Wells, Northwest Territories. We have built an air services and canoeing base for paddlers and hikers who are using the float base to access outdoor adventure in the Greater Sahtu region of the NWT. The base serves as a hospitality and interpretive centre that enhances our operational capabilities for the outdoor adventure industry and other market sectors that require float plane charter service by North-Wright Airways. We offer services for both fully-guided and self-guided expeditions from this base.
The building, a 28′x48′ timber-frame and log construction, was built during the last two summers in conjunction with North-Wright’s infrastructure upgrades and historical restorations at the NWA float base. The North-Wright project includes three new docks, the creation of a historical airways museum with a vintage float plane hanger and several historical airways buildings, an open-air pavilion and the refurbishing of both the front of the maintenance hanger and the grader shed.
The purpose of this improvement project is based on the commitment of both North-Wright Airways and Canoe North Adventures over the long term to contribute to the growth of tourism in the Sahtu region of the Northwest Territories. This commitment is based on the strong beliefs that the Sahtu has all the components necessary to make this region a significant global destination for outdoor adventure tourism.
We are appreciative of the partnerships that have grown out of these plans with North-Wright Airways and with the government offices of Industry, Tourism and Investment, and Sahtu Parks and Tourism. We appreciate the financial commitment from Industry, Tourism and Investment, GNWT to make this project possible. We look forward to more partnership development, regional product development and co-operative marketing initiatives.
Featured Adventures
- Tischu River
Our exploratory trip on the Tischu River, a tributary of the Keele River
News & Events
- Fall Newsletter November 2011
We have just posted our 2012 Expedition Program and you will see that we have offered two new winter trips including an ice-road adventure to Norman Wells! We are very excited to be offering a Coppermine River Adventure – this was my first ever arctic canoe trip when I was just 18 years old! Other [...]
- Celebrate Sahtu
On July 23rd, The Town of Norman Wells, North-Wright Airways and Canoe North Adventures will host a celebration that will showcase the wilderness of the Sahtu Region and recognize the collaboration of effort to brand the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories as a tourism destination with national and international recognition. This event will highlight the [...]
- Great Bear River Exploration
This past summer, Lin Ward, Susan Casson, Matt Casson and Karl Schiefer checked out the Great Bear River. North-Wright Airways flew them into the First Nation community of Deline on Great Bear Lake. Once canoes were loaded they only paddled a short distance out to a camp right on Great Bear Lake. Karl and Matt [...]
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- New Air Services and Canoeing Base for CNA, 2009
at the North-Wright Airways float base in Norman Wells…
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