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This is a list of notable people who are from the Northwest Territories, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that territory. A [ edit ]
The Northwest Territories [b] is a federal territory of Canada.At a land area of approximately 1,127,711.92 km 2 (435,412.01 sq mi) and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada. [3]
Comprises the western half of North Slave Region, excluding the city of Yellowknife. Lands directly owned by the Tłįchǫ government are one continuous block in the centre of the region. The region is also called Wekʼèezhìı for the purpose of the water board. Tulita District Sahtu Region Yamoria Community Secretariat / Tulita Dene First Nation
The Northwest Territories is the most populous of Canada's three territories with 41,070 residents as of 2021 and is the second-largest territory in land area at 1,127,712 km 2 (435,412 sq mi). [1] The Northwest Territories' 24 municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass but are home to 96% of its population. [1] [2] [3]
Located along the Yukon River in the sub-arctic region of Northwest Canada, Tr’ondëk-Klondike lies within the homeland of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation. It contains archaeological and historic sources that reflect Indigenous people’s adaptation to unprecedented changes caused by the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century.
Its western boundary is the Canadian province of Manitoba, which disputed Ontario's claim to the western part of the region. Ontario's right to Northwestern Ontario was determined by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1884 [1] and confirmed by the Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889, of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Pacific Cordillera, also known as the Western Cordillera or simply The Cordillera, is a top-level physiographic region of Canada, referring mainly to the extensive cordillera system in Western and Northwestern Canada that constitutes the northern part of the North American Cordillera.
Name [3] Former name/date of change [3] Translation [3] Governance Municipality [4] Administrative region Census division Population 2016 [2] % change from 2011 Location Aklavik