Radium Yellowknife

[1] Like other vessels built for service on the Mackenzie River, its tributaries, and Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, she was first built in a shipyard in Vancouver, British Columbia, then disassembled and shipped by rail to Waterways, Alberta.

Her reassembly was delayed initially by floods in the Fraser valley in May hindering transport, and then by a derailment of several of the railway cars carrying her components.

In 1953, the Radium Yellowknife was frozen-in at Norman Wells on Great Slave Lake as late as June 8.

In 2005 Atomic Energy of Canada published a study of the toxic legacy of the mining of radioactive ore at Port Radium.

[11] The boat was used in the fictional television drama The Handmaid's Tale Season 4 Episode "Vows", portraying a vessel used by a humanitarian agency sending supplies to Chicago from Canada.