Wikibooks: Canadian History/Nunavut (1999)
= Nunavut = Leading up to the 1970s there was some discussion of splitting the Northwest Territories into two separate jurisdictions in order to better reflect the demographic character of the territory. In 1966 a public commission of inquiry on Northwest Territories government reported recommending...
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ftwikibooks:enwikibooks:64269:368343 2023-10-01T03:57:02+02:00 Wikibooks: Canadian History/Nunavut (1999) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_History/Nunavut_(1999) eng eng Book ftwikibooks 2023-09-02T15:56:04Z = Nunavut = Leading up to the 1970s there was some discussion of splitting the Northwest Territories into two separate jurisdictions in order to better reflect the demographic character of the territory. In 1966 a public commission of inquiry on Northwest Territories government reported recommending against division of the Northwest Territories at the time. In 1976 as part of the land claims negotiations between the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (then called the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada) and the federal government the division of the Northwest Territories was discussed. On April 14 1982 a plebiscite on division was held throughout the Northwest Territories with a majority of the residents voting in favour and the federal government gave a conditional agreement seven months later. The land claims agreement was decided in September 1992 and ratified by nearly 85% of the voters in Nunavut in a referendum. On July 9 1993 the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavut Act were passed by the Canadian Parliament and the transition was completed on April 1 1999. The creation of Nunavut has been followed by growth in the capital Iqaluit—a modest increase from 5 200 in 2001 to 6 600 in 2011. BookCat Book inuit Iqaluit Northwest Territories Nunavut Nunavut Land Claims Agreement WikiBooks - Open-content textbooks Nunavut Northwest Territories Canada |
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= Nunavut = Leading up to the 1970s there was some discussion of splitting the Northwest Territories into two separate jurisdictions in order to better reflect the demographic character of the territory. In 1966 a public commission of inquiry on Northwest Territories government reported recommending against division of the Northwest Territories at the time. In 1976 as part of the land claims negotiations between the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (then called the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada) and the federal government the division of the Northwest Territories was discussed. On April 14 1982 a plebiscite on division was held throughout the Northwest Territories with a majority of the residents voting in favour and the federal government gave a conditional agreement seven months later. The land claims agreement was decided in September 1992 and ratified by nearly 85% of the voters in Nunavut in a referendum. On July 9 1993 the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavut Act were passed by the Canadian Parliament and the transition was completed on April 1 1999. The creation of Nunavut has been followed by growth in the capital Iqaluit—a modest increase from 5 200 in 2001 to 6 600 in 2011. BookCat |
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