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September/October 2002 issue


FEATURE
Northwest Territories


Changing courses (feature) |  NWT license plates | Territorial timeline | The shape-shifting territory | Archives

The shape-shifting territory

The original Northwest Territories was a vast tract that Canada acquired from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870. It grew to include the Arctic islands in 1880, then shrank through the creation of the Yukon and the Prairie Provinces and the expansion of Ontario and Quebec. In 1999, the remainder was split in two, with Nunavut in the east and the new Northwest Territories in the west.



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