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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]
In 1973 the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (ITC) began research on Inuit land use and occupancy in the Arctic. Three years later in 1976, ITC proposed creating a Nunavut Territory and the federal Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended dividing the Northwest Territories into two electoral districts: the Western Arctic (now the Northwest Territories) and Nunatsiaq (now Nunavut).
Careful examination of the title is therefore necessary to determine who owns the mineral rights to a particular piece of land. [6] [9] For example, in the leading petroleum-producing province of Alberta, 81% of the subsurface mineral rights are owned by the provincial Crown. The remaining 19% are owned by the federal Crown, individuals, or ...
The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers Along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750–1850 (Kent State University Press, 2006) Beatty-Medina, Charles, and Melissa Rinehart, eds. Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700–1850 (Michigan State University Press, 2012) Buley, R ...
In April 1982, a majority of Northwest Territories' residents voted in favour of a division of the area, and the federal government gave a conditional agreement seven months later. After a long series of land claim negotiations between the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada and the federal government (begun earlier in 1976), an agreement was reached in ...
In 1982 a referendum was held to decide on splitting the Northwest Territories. This was followed by the 1992 Nunavut creation referendum, with the majority of the people in the far north voting to leave the Northwest Territories, leading to creation of the new territory of Nunavut in 1999. Very few non-Indigenous people have settled in these ...
Northwest Passage routes. The legal status of the Northwest Passage is disputed: Canada considers it to be part of its historic internal waters. [68] The United States and most maritime nations [69] consider them to be an international strait, [70] which means that foreign vessels have right of "transit passage". [71]
A. ^ Harry Winston Diamond Mines owns 40% and Diavik Diamond Mines, which is 100% owned by the Rio Tinto, owns 60%. B. ^ Dominion Diamond Corporation owns 88.9% while Charles Fipke and Stewart Blusson each own 10%. C. ^ Mountain Province Diamonds owns 44%, De Beers Canada 51% and Camphor Ventures 4.9% D. ^ Pine Point and Port Radium are ghost ...