Yellowknife Post Office

The Post Office building for Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, serving the X1A postal codes, is located at the southwest corner of 49th Street and Franklin Avenue.

Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Post office
Description: building in Northwest Territories, Canada
Also known as: “Yellowknife Main”
Address: 4902 Franklin Avenue, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories X1A 1C0

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre and Log School House.

Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre

Museum

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The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre is the Government of the Northwest Territories' museum and archives. Located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, the PWNHC acquires and manages objects and archival materials that represent the cultures… Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre is situated 470 metres northwest of Yellowknife Post Office.

Log School House

Historic building

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The first building used as a school in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, is currently located on Franklin Avenue at the south end of New Town, the city's downtown section. Log School House is situated 410 metres southwest of Yellowknife Post Office.

Explorer Hotel

Hotel

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The Explorer Hotel is located on 49th Avenue in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is an eight-storey-tall modernist concrete structure built in the mid-1970s. Explorer Hotel is situated 340 metres north of Yellowknife Post Office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yellowknife and Dettah.

Yellowknife

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Yellowknife is the capital city of the Northwest Territories, on the North Arm of Great Slave Lake, on Yellowknife Bay. Yellowknife is the main entry point for visitors to NWT.

Dettah

Village

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Dettah sometimes spelled incorrectly as Detah, is a First Nations community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Located just southeast of the capital of Yellowknife, it is a 6.5 km drive from that city by ice road across the north arm of Great Slave Lake in winter or a 27 km drive via the Ingraham Trail, year-round. Dettah is situated 6 km southeast of Yellowknife Post Office.