Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to take a moment to congratulate the Yellowknife Seniors Society for producing a wonderful record of Yellowknife's early days. It is a book called Yellowknife Tales. This book is a compilation of life stories and photographs of the people who lived in Yellowknife when this was a much smaller community than it is today. The stories are entertaining, amusing and informative, but more than that, they are a historical record of Yellowknife's roots.

The work of gathering the stories, photos and editing the material was done entirely by a committee of volunteers headed by a well-known resident, Barb Bromley. The other members of the book committee were Esther Braden, Jan Stirling, Mike Vaydik, the late Mike Piro, Erica Tesar, Wendy Stephenson, Terry Foster and Ronne Hemming.

The Seniors Society received financial support for this project from several Yellowknife organizations and businesses and the Government of Canada's Millennium Fund. Mr. Speaker, I hope this House will join me in extending congratulations and a big thank you to the Yellowknife Seniors Society for pulling Yellowknife Tales together and publishing this very worthwhile document, so that we may all have a better understanding of Yellowknife's heritage. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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