Remembering Rocher River, the N.W.T. town that disappeared – CBC

‘We [didn’t] want to leave… but we had to leave because we wanted our kids to go to school’

June 26, 2017

This story is part of a series from CBC North looking at Canada 150 through the eyes of northern families.

First there was the fire.

It was New Year’s Eve in the late 1950s or early 1960s when the only school in Rocher River, a small community in the N.W.T.’s South Slave region, burned to the ground while the village watched helplessly.

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