Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed carrier business in 1947. The last steam-propelled sternwheelers, the "S.S. Distributor" and "S.S. Mackenzie" were retired around the same time. In later years, with the construction of the Mackenzie Highway from Alberta to Great Slave Lake, the importance of the Athabasca-Slave River route dwindled and NTCL operations were based from shipyards in Hay River after 1959. NTCL became the primary water operator in the Mackenzie River watershed with the purchase of Hudson's Bay Company's fleet and equipment in 1958, and the total buyout of Yellowknife Transportation Company in 1965 including its fleet of diesel tug boats. Other small commercial operators
The River Flows The River Flows The River Flows: Anthology Vol. 1 is a progressive rock 4-CD album by Iona, released in 2002. It is a box set collection of their first three studio albums with some re-recording plus a fourth disc which is a collection of additional material from throughout the years. The band's first album, "Iona", has the re-recorded tracks and each of the first three is subtly re-mastered. CD 4 contains new and previously unreleased material including Iona's soundtrack from the BBC nature programme "Snowdonia Realm of the Ravens" (remixed and extended), jigs, reels, a new version of "Hearthquake" and