NORTH WEST TERRITORIES Motto - Land of the Midnight Sun

NORTH WEST TERRTORIES 2nd largest of the 3 territories in Canada population about 42,514 (2008 estimate Statistics Canada)

NORTH WEST TERRITORIES Part of the territory has trees like black spruce, white spruce, birch, poplar long cold winters with temperatures of ranging from -20° C to -50° C with the wind chill

Northwest Territories The first people were the Dene and the Inuit Dene lived along the Mackenzie Valley ten thousand years ago .

NORTH WEST TERRTORIES hunting and trapping of mink, wolf, lynx, fox, marten and polar bear commercial fishing on Great Slave Lake (lake trout, whitefish, and pickerel)

NORTH WEST TERRITORIES NWT Highway 1 and Mackenzie Highway provide access to Alberta via connecting roads from Yellowknife and other communities From January to March, truckers drive on ice roads plowed on frozen lakes to deliver supplies.

NORTH WEST TERRITORIES Nellie Cournoyea (from Aklavik) became the first aboriginal woman in Canada to lead a provincial or territorial government. She was premier of the N.W.T. (1991-1995 The Inuvialuit Drum Dancers perform locally, regionally and nationally.

PEOPLE OF THE NORTH WEST TERRTORIES

THE CLIMATE The Northwest Territories' climate is cold but relatively dry, with temperate, sunny summers, in which temperatures rarely rise above 25°C (77°F), and long, bitter winters, during which the thermometer can plunge to -40°C (-40°F), especially north of the Arctic Circle.

COME TO NORTH WEST TERRTORIES

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