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When did Northwest Territories become a territory?
It hasn't become a province yet, it is still a territory.
What territory is in northwest canada?
Northwest Territories is the only province with a town with knife in the name. It is the only province with the Mackenzie river emptying into the Arctic ocean, and it is also the only province with the Great Bear lake.
Is Nunavut a territory or a province?
Nunavut is a Canadian territory, along with the Yukon and Northwest Territories.
Is the northwest territory a big territory?
Yes, it is the biggest territory/province in Canada, but sparsely populated.
What is the Capital city of the Province of northwest territory?
1. The name is "Northwest Territories" and, as a name, must be capitalized. 2. Northwest Territories is not a province; Northwest Territories is a territory (despite the plural nature of its name). 3. In this context, neither "capital" nor "province" should be capitalized. 4. The capital of Northwest Territories is Yellowknife.
How did the government make money from the northwest territory?
BY buisnesses of the people in the province.
Name the capital of the Northwest Territories a Canadian province that is located on the northern shore of the great slave lake?
Yellowknife is the capital of Northwest Territories, but Northwest Territories is not a province. As the name indicates, Northwest Territories is a territory.
Is Newfoundland a province or territory?
Newfoundland is considered a province. Canada has only 3 territories which are the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut.
When did the northwest territory become a territory?
The N.W.T. became a territory on July 15, 1870.
What national park straddles a province and a territory?
Wood Buffalo Park in Alberta and The Northwest Territories
When did Northwest Territories become Territory?
Northwest Territories came into being on the same day that Rupert's Land was transferred from Britain to Canada, and on the same day Manitoba became a province: July 15, 1870.
Is the Beufort Sea closer to Canada's Northwest Territory or the province of Quebec?
The Beaufort Sea splashes up against the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
