Arctic Mark's Photo Gallery (vol. 3 - Oct. 2005)
Nice Name for a Road, eh?
For those of you who are not Tom Cochrane fans (which I hope is most if not all of you), you wouldn't know that he named one of his albums after this legendary road in the Old Town area of Yellowknife. I found out that the name came about because originally the road had no name, and then one night two old-timers were sitting around drinking and thought it would be a funny name for their road. The name took hold, and thus a legend was born. I know, it's a pretty tame (and lame) story in a region filled with larger-than-life characters, like Albert Johnson, the notorious "Mad Trapper of Rat River" who killed one RCMP officer and wounded another in the early 1930's. Johnson died in a hail of police bullets in 1932 in Aklavik after being pursued across several territories in a massive manhunt using airplanes. Now THAT's a good story, deserving of a street name or two.
Feel free to invent your own story for Ragged Ass Road (Just keep it clean, please. This is a family blogsite.)