When did Canada get a new Province ?

[Mikey]

Ok, I admit ...... I haven't been to school in a LONG time......
And perhaps the whole rest of the world knows this, but I totally missed it.

So i'm just buzzing around the net looking at maps, and all of a sudden I see the Northwest Territories was split in two ---
Now there's Northwest Territories AND Nunavut

What the heck's a Nunavut ?

[4NDR01D]

It happened several years back, nobody here in Canada really noticed either.
In fact I couldn't tell you if it's the right or left side of the NWT, or bottom or top for that matter, in fact I'm surprised I even responded to this thread

[SUP-Ronin]

Way to go Stretch. That was about as useless as this response.

[fallensaviour]

Nunavit is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act.It has a population of 29,474 spread over 1.9 million km² (750,000 sq mi) of land and 161,000 km² (62,000 sq mi) of water.

It's on the right side of the territories....(so not really a province but a territory)

Go ahead ask me how I know this?
My daughter is in grade seven so apparently I need to know this as well...LOL

Hope that helps ya out...T1K

Yes I know you really didn't care but neither did I.Maybe now that I have released this information I can obsorb something worthwhile...LOL

[cjefferys]

Still 10 provinces, but now 3 territories. I think it was due to some government deal involving the Inuit. 1999?? Hard to believe it's been almost 10 years already!

[Captain]

The Northwest Territories name was used as a descriptor for the former Ruperts Land, Hudsons Bays territories,etc, etc. At the time, the Canadian Government wasnt even sure it wanted the territory which was much larger originally. Remember, prior to 1905, Alberta and Saskatchewan were lumped in under that name (and area) as well.

David Thompson trailed and mapped the area, and convinced them it was worth the effort. Like most Canadian heroes, Thompson isnt very well known, but he mad a ton of discoveries in his day, was the first white person to see evidence of and report on Sasquatch (sited footprints, saw destruction caused by the beast, and was kept up nights by the weird screams and whoops the thing made...all near modern day Jasper Alberta). His maps were so accurate that even a much more famous pair--Lewis and Clarke used them (and sought his counsel) on their legendary travels. At the time, the border wasnt clearly delineated, so much of the territory Thompson mapped spilled into modern day Montana, and Idaho.

Now that the current Federal Gov't is actually going to try to clearly stake out and defend our Northern sovereignty, I'm sure we may see more new Territories added.

[fallensaviour]

I graduated from David Thompson Secondary school....In the East Kootenays of B.C.

[Mawni]

I was down at the Lewis and Clark museum in Great Falls, Montana a couple of months ago and they had a fairly big section all about Thompson and his discoveries. He was a cool guy. He came over to Canada to work for the Hudson's Bay Company when he was 14 or 15.

I teach grade seven kids so I have to know stuff like that.

[Joe90]

I was down at the Lewis and Clark museum in Great Falls, Montana a couple of months ago and they had a fairly big section all about Thompson and his discoveries. He was a cool guy. He came over to Canada to work for the Hudson's Bay Company when he was 14 or 15.

I teach grade seven kids so I have to know stuff like that.

Yeah, Canada owes it's identity to the Hudson's Bay Company... David Thompson was a Welshman, and like so many poor folks in those days, he became indentured to the HBC. Due to the Magna Carta, slavery of a British subject was illegal, so they came up with Indentured Servitude. Most Indentured men stayed on with the HBC, and many Hudson's Bay Men like David Thompson took Indian wives. The HBC opertated on huge tracts of land that had been chartered to them by the British Crown; David Thompson had explored these lands. When the HBC sold these lands to Canada they took care of their Hudson's Bay Men by having the Canadian Government allow these European men, and their metis children, to take Indian Status. If you look at the original Treaties for Rupert's Land (the HBC land) many of the "Indian Chiefs" sign their names...

[Mikey]

This is great reading guys --- and interesting

When I went to school, most of our Canada lessons were basically (The country above the USA)

Good stuff

[palitoy]

In 1999, it was an exciting time to sell cartographic products, let me tell you. Barnes and Noble needed to replace all their Canada materials, woo-hoo!

Even I think my story is boring.

[fallensaviour]

This is great reading guys --- and interesting

When I went to school, most of our Canada lessons were basically (The country above the USA)

Good stuff

The funny thing is when I was in school we had to learn all kinds of history about the US such as all the presidents,explorers,civil war,battles,the states themselves,also standard measures???
Very few americans I've met could tell me much about Canada so whats up with that?Has it changed at all?

[cjefferys]

Yeah, Canada owes it's identity to the Hudson's Bay Company

But it's sad when everytime I go to one of their stores, I see less and less people there.

[Brue]

I don't know what is worse - the fact that it happened 9 years before I knew about it or the fact that I learned about it on a toy collectors forum.

[fallensaviour]

I don't know what is worse - the fact that it happened 9 years before I knew about it or the fact that I learned about it on a toy collectors forum.

Now that is just way to classic....