Q&A: The authors of Price of Gold on learning from Giant Mine – Cabin Radio
October 23, 2025
“They used to call it the city paved with gold and we as kids would say oh geez, it’s paved with arsenic.”
Darrell Beaulieu says there’s a lot about Giant Mine and its impact on the Yellowknife area that is not written in books and reports.
Growing up in Ndılǫ across Great Slave Lake from the gold mine, he said people in the community would swim in Back Bay, drink the water and set nets on islands.
In the 1970s, Beaulieu said he remembers the Yellowknives Dene discussing concerns about the safety of the water.
