Over the next 10 years the Federal Government announced its support of Nunavut, boundaries were agreed to and then disagreed upon, and a boundary plebiscite was called and canceled. In February , the Executive Council set May 4 as the date for Northerners to vote on a proposed boundary, known as the Parker line, for creating two new territories. A slim majority supported the proposed boundary with high voter turnout in Nunavut and considerably lower turnout in the West.
In November , the Inuit overwhelmingly approved the Nunavut Final Land Claim Agreement and took a huge step towards realizing their dream of the new territory of Nunavut and their own government. From tea-boiling contests to snowmobile races, the new territory is having fun on its birthday. The northern lights appeared in Nunavut skies last night, just in time for the birth of the new Canadian territory. In an historic land claim settlement, Inuit in the eastern Arctic endorse the creation of Nunavut.
Northwest Territories residents are about to vote on boundaries for a proposed territory called Nunavut. The majority of voters in a plebiscite choose to split the Northwest Territories in two. The page you are looking at will not be updated. The Creation of Nunavut The Story. Be as creative as you can! Compare this map to Map 2, noting how the larger land was divided into provinces and territories.
Over time, the NWT was divided into other provinces and a territory: Manitoba in , the Yukon Territory in , and the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Now that Nunavut has been created, the western territory is still known as the Northwest Territories. During the winter, your local radio stations will broadcast snow conditions for your region or for local ski hills. Even if you're not a skier, you probably know what "fresh powder snow" looks and feels like.
But just how frozen is a ski hill's "frozen granular base"? In English, there are very few words for snow, but in Inuktitut there are at least 14 words! Do you think "frozen granular base" is aniugaviniq very hard, compressed and frozen snow or pukak crystalline snow that breaks down and separates like salt?
Here are the 14 Inuktitut words for snow. How many conditions do you recognize? Try drawing a picture of these different types of snow! Some of these words are already in the KrissKross puzzle.
Following a plebiscite held in the NWT in in which A Constitutional Alliance was then established, composed of members of the Legislative Assembly and representatives of Aboriginal organizations in the NWT, whose goal was to agree upon the physical boundaries of division and the appropriate political structures for the territory. While the Constitutional Alliance finally negotiated the Iqaluit Agreement in , disagreements over land claim areas resulted in the non-ratification of the agreement and the canceling of the proposed plebiscite on the boundary specifications.
Fiftyfour percent of those voting supported the proposed boundary, which was then formally adopted by the government of the Northwest Territories, the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut the Inuit claims organization , and the federal government in the Nunavut Political Accord. During the discussions of the division boundary, a separate land claims negotiation was also occurring over the creation of Nunavut.
In April , an Agreement-in-Principle to settle the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement was finalized which affirmed federal, territorial, and Inuit support for the creation of Nunavut "as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Canada, the government of the NWT, and the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut negotiated a political accord separate from the land claim settlement in October which dealt with powers, principles of financing and timing for the establishment of a distinct Nunavut government. The Nunavut Act, which received royal assent in June , establishes the legal framework for the new government. The historic land claims settlement was signed after 20 years of negotiation in between representatives of the Inuit of central and eastern Arctic and the Governments of Canada and the Northwest Territories.
The agreement, the largest native land claim settlement in Canadian history, provides title to the Nunavut Inuit of an area of land one-fifth the size of Canada. This agreement ensures a stable environment for future economic development in the new territory of Nunavut. In addition to creating five-year economic development programs for each region and encouraging the growth of native development corporations, the agreement also provides for the training and development of a professional bureaucracy to implement the settlement.
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