1. NORTH WEST TERRITORIES
Motto - Land of the Midnight Sun

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

3. 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

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

5. 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)

6. 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.

7. 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. (
The Inuvialuit Drum Dancers perform locally, regionally and nationally.

8. PEOPLE OF THE NORTH WEST TERRTORIES

9. 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.

10. COME TO NORTH WEST TERRTORIES

11. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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