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Northwest Territories (definition)
Located in northern Canada, the Northwest Territories borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south. The capital of the Northwest Territories is Yellowknife.
Articles tagged with Northwest Territories (34)
Secrets of the Nahanni
A timeless journey down a river that was here before the mountains
An energy gem
Wind power is fueling the push to green diamond mines in the Northwest Territories
The NWT’s new jewel
Nààts’ihch’oh National Park is the NWT’s new star
Northern vision
An interview with Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the past, present and future of Canada's North
Source: Canadian Geographic, October 2012
Department:
Discovery
Tags:
Alert, Nunavut, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Churchill, Manitoba, Geographic education, Geography, Manitoba, National parks, Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Parks Canada, Stephen Harper, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Bigger fish to fry
Sport fishing gets eco-conscious in Yellowknife—and the food is still good
Canada’s new geothermal energy industry
Pioneers of geothermal energy in Canada are cropping up in unusual places
Bigger is better
Source: Canadian Geographic Travel, March 2010
Department:
Gateway
Contributors:
Emma Lehmberg
A walk in the park
Provincial parks don’t always get their due, so it’s time to highlight 25 of Canada’s provincial and territorial playgrounds to explore this year
Source: Canadian Geographic Travel, March 2009
Department:
Feature stories
Tags:
Alberta, Basin Head Provincial Park, Blomidon Provincial Park, Bowron Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia, Buffalo Pound Provincial Park, Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park, Chance Cove Provincial Park, Five Islands Provincial Park, French River Provincial Park, Gooseberry Cove Provincial Park, Hopewell Rocks, Katannilik Territorial Park Reserve, Killarney Provincial Park, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Panmure Island Provincial Park, Parc national de la Gaspésie, Parc national du Saguenay, Prelude Lake Territorial Park, Prince Edward Island, Provincial parks, Quebec, Quetico Provincial Park, Sambaa Deh Falls Territorial Park, Saskatchewan, Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park, Tombstone Territorial Park, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Woolastook Park, Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, Yukon
Hurry hard
Source: Canadian Geographic Travel, March 2009
Department:
Gateway
Contributors:
Michael Kapral
Late nights in Yellowknife
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Yellowknife brims with shinny rinks, snowshoe and cross-country ski trails — and lots and lots of ravens
Source: Canadian Geographic Travel, November 2008
Department:
OneCity
Contributors:
Laurie Sarkadi
Little mosque on the delta
Inuvik’s big 5-0
Source: Canadian Geographic Travel, May 2008
Department:
Gateway
Contributors:
Rachel MacNeill
Caribou in decline
What's causing the rapid collapse of caribou herds — humans, climate or natural cycles?
Diamond alley
The world’s longest ice road is a winter supply route for four Northwest Territories mines and a marvel of engineering
All hail the Snowking
Source: Canadian Geographic Travel, November 2007
Department:
Gateway
Contributors:
Jasmine Budak
People of the delta
Scattered across the vast reaches of the Mackenzie Delta, five small Arctic communities are home to a mix of newcomers from across the country and around the world and First Nations people still living off the land.Will a $16 billion gas-pipeline project be their salvation or their destruction?
The Mackenzie Delta
Thirty years after the initial project was proposed, the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline public hearings and panels are moving ahead for a final decision by 2008.
Polar voices: The park warden
Golf by the midnight sun
Source: Canadian Geographic Travel, May 2007
Department:
Gateway
Contributors:
I. J. Schecter
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