Enjoy a private entrance, wireless internet, cable TV, modern kitchen with 5 appliances, washer and dryer and propane fireplace. Continental breakfast provided every morning.

Clean – Private - Centrally located - Close to all amenities

* Family/Personal Portraiture
* Fine Art Photography of Aurora Borealis, Nature and wildlife around South Slave
* Stock photography
* Commercial Photography
* Wedding photography
* Freelance photography
* Event & Sports Photography
* Old Photograph Restoration and Reprinting

Historical / Heritage Sites
● Fort Smith Mission Historic Park

Tourism
● Marketing
● Operator licensing
● Product diversification and marketing
● Research
● Training

Territorial Parks and Campgrounds
● Queen Elizabeth
● Little Buffalo River
● Lady Evelyn Falls
● 60th Parallel Visitor Centre
● Little Buffalo Falls
● Hay River
● Fort Providence

Parks Reservation System
● Queen Elizabeth / Hay River / Twin Falls

Wayside Parks
● Kakisa River
● Dory Point
● McNallie Creek
● Chan Lake

To encourage economic development in the South Slave Region, your regional Industry, Tourism & Investment development team will:

• Promote and support a diversified economy that provides opportunities to residents.
• Promote and support the development of business opportunities, including agriculture, traditional economy, tourism, investment, manufacturing, and secondary industries.
• Promote the sustainable development of natural resources that respects the conservation and protection of the environment for our future generations.
• Promote and support the efficient development, utilization and marketing of energy resources to achieve self-sufficiency, maximize economic opportunities, and realize affordable energy costs.
• Secure economic and employment opportunities from responsible resource development for Northwest Territories residents.
• Develop partnerships with individuals, businesses, communities, Aboriginal organizations and other governments to foster prosperity and community self-reliance.

Link to the South Slave’s Regional Development Strategy document
http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/Publications/2007/About-ITI/southslavecut.pdf

BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Business Development Funds
Business Incentive Policy
Grants to Small Business
Business Development and Investment Corporation
Community Futures

FUR, AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES
Agricultural Policy Framework
Arts and Fine Crafts
Community Harvesters Assistance
Commercial Fishing Industry Support
Harvester's Disaster Compensation
Local Wildlife Committees
Take a Kid Trapping Program
Western Harvesters Assistance Program

TOURISM AND PARKS
Historical / Heritage Sites
Territorial Parks and Campgrounds
Tourism Operator Licensing

Little Buffalo River Falls day use area is located approximately 50 Km northwest of Fort Smith on highway #5 and just a short way from the southern Northwest Territories entrance to Wood Buffalo National Park.

The site has a kitchen shelter, tables, fire pits and outhouses.

A short distance from the site is the boat launch to the Little Buffalo River.

A forest fire burned over much of the land around here in 1981. Re-growth has been extremely vigorous , and the park is now just as beautiful as it always was. There are interpretive signs at the park that explain the natural process of regeneration caused by the forest fire.

Sixtieth Parallel Visitor Centre is located on the Waterfalls Route, your pathway to our dramatic & spectacular waterfalls, at the Northwest Territories/Alberta border.

It also forms part of the Deh Cho Travel Connection, the tour route that takes in the unique communities and sights of two provinces and a territory.

Get brochures here for the rest of your trip in the NWT, see displays about the region, or enjoy a complimentary cup of coffee by the woodstove before heading on down the road.

Little Buffalo River Crossing Territorial Park is located where NWT Highway #6, the Wood Buffalo Route, crosses the Little Buffalo River. It is approximately 30 km west of the community of Fort Resolution.

Little Buffalo River Crossing provides an excellent place along the highway to drop in a fishing line and reel in some nice pickerel and jack-fish.

With a comfortable 2-3 minute paddle, a person can reach the mouth of the Little Buffalo River and the shores of Great Slave Lake.

Queen Elizabeth Territorial Park is located at the eastern end of the Wood Buffalo Route, close to the centre of the community of Fort Smith, gateway to Wood Buffalo National Park. There are trails around the park, and to the Slave River & Rapids.

Operational Season:
Queen Elizabeth Territorial Park is open from May 15th to September 15th. Trails within the park may be accessible on foot outside of those dates, but they will not be maintained clear of snow, and so you enter at your own risk. Services such as toilets and garbage removal are not provided outside the open season.

To book a camp site, please refer to the link provided on this page.

Fort Smith Mission Historic Park is all that remains of the original 151 acre / 61 hectare Oblate Catholic Mission in what is now the centre of Fort Smith.
For a period of a century between 1876 and the early 1980's, the Roman Catholic Church operated its mission to the entire western arctic from here. In the absence of any government school system at the time, the church opened and operated schools across the north, which at that time included all territory north of Edmonton.

The Oblate Mission maintained a Bishop's Residence, St. Isodore's Church, assorted sheds, repair shops, a hospital with associated nun's residence, a residential school, large fields for the growing of crops, and even an airstrip. Nearby, the church operated docking facilities on the Slave River for their Mission boats, a farm, and sawmill.

The park provides an extensive self-guided tour of the historic mission sites, with sign boards describing various aspects of the history and activities of the mission. You can still see:

* The Bishop's residence, built in 1911
* The Cathedral
* The fields that were cultivated, some of which have been restored
* The storage shed
* The carpentry shop
* Vehicle repair shop
* Machine shop
* The hospital building that was built in 1952 to replace earlier structures
* The Grotto
* The sites of several other buildings that have been removed.

Providing tourist information services, brochures, free internet access, coffee and free showers for visitors to Fort Smith.

Hours: MON - SAT: 11am - 7pm , SUN: 12pm - 7pm
-attendant available May - September
-unattended October - April, but information available by request at Rec Centre reception desk