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Beginning with Confederation in 1867, the
regional provinces in Canada have been divided into
Provinces and territories. Canada originally consisted
of 4 Provinces but through negotiations with the British
authorities and the Hudson Bay Company added on a huge
territory which became known as the Northwest
Territories.
Other Provinces cam
into Confederation with Provincial status such as Prince
Edward Island, British Columbia and in 1949,
Newfoundland. The Northwest Territories has been divided
and Provinces created from sections of those divisions
over the years. The main reason for the creation of a
Province has been when it reaches a large population
base which appears to be able to be maintained.
Manitoba, through the actions of the
Métis was brought into Canada as a Province. The
Northwest Territories were the divided into Saskatchewan
and Alberta and brought into Canada as
provinces once their populations reached a certain
level. The population level is not set as a definitive
number.
Remaining sections of
the Northwest territories were added to the western
Provinces with the Yukon also being formed into a
separate Territory with the Klondike Gold Rush in the
1890's. By the
1970's the aspirations of the Inuit people in the
Northwest Territories were recognized by the Federal
Government and the creation of a Territory, separate
from the rest of the Northwest Territories, to
accommodate their desires for a legal territorial area.
The Inuit Tapirisat were the Inuit group which the
Canadian Government negotiated with and an agreement was
finally agreed to which designated April 14th, 1982 as
the date for a plebiscite of all the people in the
Northwest Territories over the question of creating a
new Territory to be known as Nunavut for the Inuit. The
plebiscite was passed and 7 months later the Canadian
Government agreed to a conditional plan.
Final agreement was reached in
September of 1992 and another vote in the new
area of Nunavut was passed by 85% of the voters.
The Canadian Parliament passed the Nunavut Land
Claims Agreement and the Nunavut act on July
9th, 1993 which was to take effect on April 1,
1999.
On April 1, 1999
Nunavut was born as a separate Territory and has its
capital at Iqaluit. |
