"Aurora Wonderland"




Beck's Kennels



The Experience of a Lifetime

Beck's Kennels has been hosting visitors in Yellowknife since 1989.
Based on this extensive experience, we offer flawlessly coordinated,
quality tourism products with friendly, professional service in both
English and Japanese.

Beck's Kennels is one of the largest professional sled dog kennels in Canada.
Over 150 happy, healthy huskies live at Beck's  Kennels which is located
in the capetal city of the Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, home
of the Diavik 150 Canadian Campionship Dog Derby.

If you are looking for adventure along with a pristine wilderness tours,
Beck's Kennels is the place for you.

You will have a chance to meet with World Champion Dog Musher, Grant Beck.
Grant has a truly remarkable racing career including racing throughout the Pyrenees
Mountains in Spain, The French, Swiss and Italian Alps, and of course throughout
North America.

Yellowknife Aurora Capitol of Canada

The capital of Canada's Northwest Territories, Yellowknife is located directly under the Aurora Oval,
a narrow band encircling the polar reaches of the globe in which the mysterious green light of
the Aurora Borealis are at their most brilliant.  Coupled with its clear cold nights,this favorable
geographic location makes Yellowknife consistently one of the best places in the world for Aurora viewing.

From our strategically located a few kilometers out of town and far from any man-made light,
our guests experience dramatically across the night sky.  The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights,
are actually giant electrical storms formed by solar flares from the sun reacting with the earth's magnetic field.
Although they are usually about 100-500 kilometers above the earth's upper atmosphere,
up here in Canada's north, our guests often feel that they can reach out and touch them.

City of Yellowknife

Located on the northern shores of Great Slave Lake (the tenth largest lake in the world)Yellowknife is the capital
of the Northwest Territories and the most northerly city in Canada. On April 1, 1999 the NWT split into two new territories
along east-west lines, Northwest Territories and Nunavut Territory.  Although these two territories comprise about 1/3 of
Canada land and sea mass, their population are less than 70,000, of whom about 22,000 live in Yellowknife.

From the 1700s until well into this century, the historic fur trade dominated the economy of Yellowknife.  Following the
discovery of gold in the early 1930s, prospectors and miners began settling the town, and mining has remained the town's
major industry to this day.  The two gold mines started in the 30s are now closed, and North America's first diamond
mine is now in operation north of the city.