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	Northwest Territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1876, the District of Keewatin, at the centre of the territory, was separated from it.
		Quebec was also extended, in 1898, and Yukon was made a separate territory in the same year to deal with the Klondike Gold Rush, and remove the NWT government from administering the sudden boom of population, economic activity and influx of non-Canadians.
		The Commissioner of NWT is the chief executive and is appointed by the federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northwest_Territories (1554 words)

	Northwest Territories - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One of the territories of Arctic Canada, the Northwest Territories (NWT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) has a landmass of 1,171,918 square kilometres and a population of 42,944 as of the January 1, 2005.
		The Northwest Territories are located east of Yukon, west of Nunavut, and north of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.
		The Northwest Territories were created in 1870, when the Hudson's Bay Company transferred Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the government of Canada.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Northwest_Territories (1267 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Commissioner of the Northwest Territories and the Northwest Territories Public Service Association Respondents and The Attorney General of Canada and the Attorney General for Ontario Interveners indexed as: professional institute of the public service of canada v.
		The appellant Institute was the bargaining agent for a number of nurses employed by the federal government in the Northwest Territories until the nurses became employees of the territorial government.
		The Commissioner of the Northwest Territories appealed to the Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories.
	www.lexum.umontreal.ca /csc-scc/en/pub/1990/vol2/texte/1990scr2_0367.txt (12107 words)

	Northwest Territories Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Territories" means the Northwest Territories, which comprise all that part of Canada north of the sixtieth parallel of north latitude and west of the boundary described in Schedule I to the Nunavut Act that is not within Yukon.
		Northwest Territories C.R.F. (1) All public moneys and revenue over which the Commissioner in Council has the power of appropriation shall form a fund to be known as the Northwest Territories Consolidated Revenue Fund.
		(1) The Commissioner may, subject to the approval of the Minister, arrange with any province for the removal of neglected children from the Territories to foster homes or suitable institutions in that province, for their care, education and maintenance therein and for the compensation to be paid therefor to that province.
	lois.justice.gc.ca /en/N-27/86538.html (3579 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		Territorial disputes between the UK and Guatemala delayed the independence of Belize (formerly British Honduras) until 1981.
		Established as a territory of the UK in 1965, a number of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) islands were transferred to the Seychelles when it attained independence in 1976.
		The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became Djibouti in 1977.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	Northwest Territories Courts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Territorial Court, the statutory court of record, is similar to provincial courts in other jurisdictions and has such jurisdiction as expressly provided by federal and territorial legislation.
		The judges of the Territorial Court are appointed by the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, in Executive-Council, upon the recommendation of a Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee, which is composed of representatives of the public, the legal profession, and the judiciary.
		In addition, all resident judges of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories are also ex officio judges of the Territorial Court.
	www.nwtcourts.ca /Courts/tc.htm (319 words)

	Commissioner's Findings - PIPED Act Case Summary #1: Video surveillance activities in a public place - June 15, ...
		The Information and Privacy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut complained that a security company had improperly collected personal information without the consent of individuals by means of surveillance cameras installed on the main street of Yellowknife.
		On the evidence, the Commissioner was satisfied that individuals had not consented to the collection.
		The Commissioner has advised the company that its intended public video surveillance for commercial purposes is unlawful and should not be pursued.
	www.privcom.gc.ca /cf-dc/2001/cf-dc_010615_e.asp (535 words)

	The Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories
		At first, the Northwest Territories was administered by the Lieutenant Governor of Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories (1869) and then by the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories (1870-76).
		In 1888, the Northwest Territories Act was amended and the former Council was dropped in favor of a Legislative Assembly consisting of twenty-two elected Members and three non-voting legal advisers.
		The Commissioner was appointed by the Governor General of Canada, as advised by the Prime Minister.
	www.assembly.ab.ca /lao/library/lt-gov/nwt.htm (1174 words)

	Minister Scott Congratulates Newly Appointed Deputy Commissioner for the Northwest Territories - Indian and Northern ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Anthony (Tony) Whitford was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories.
		Whitford has extensive experience representing the Government of the Northwest Territories and Canada on the national and international scene, in every province and territory, as well as Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Gibraltar and Africa.
		The position of Deputy Commissioner was established under the Northwest Territories Act.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /nr/prs/s-d2004/2-02519_e.html (334 words)

	Stuart Milton Hodgson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stuart Milton Hodgson, OC, LL.D (born 1924 April 1 in Vancouver, BC) was Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (NWT) from 1967 March 2 until 1979 April 6.
		The first Commissioner to actually reside in the Northwest Territories, he was a leader in the construction of a semiautonomous, responsible self-government run by residents of the territory.
		In 1974, the residents of Pangnirtung (since then becoming part of Nunavut) presented the Commissioner with eleven stories which were later compiled into a book.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stuart_Milton_Hodgson (256 words)

	Office of the Treaty Commissioner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Honourable David Laird was the first resident Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories after it was established as a separate administrative area by the Northwest Territories Act of 1876.
		During the summer of 1874, David negotiated with the Qu’Appelle Lakes Treaty with Indians of this region and the importance of treaty negotiations to the construction of the Dominion Telegraph and the Canadian Pacific Railway.
		From 1881 to 1898, Mr Laird served as editor of the Charlottetown Patriot and in 1898, he was appointed Indian Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, Manitoba and Keewatin, a position he held until his death.
	www.otc.ca /laird.htm (327 words)

	ipedia.com: Northwest Territories Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One of the territories of Arctic Canada, the Northwest Territories (NWT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) has a landmass of 1,171,918 square kilometres and a population of 37,360 as of the 2001 census.
		[1] Devolution of powers to the territory is an issue in the Northwest Territories general election, 2003.
		Unlike lieutenant-governors, the commissioner is not a formal represntative of the Queen of Canada.
	www.ipedia.com /northwest_territories.html (1172 words)

	AWARDS - CIM
		A graduate of the University of Alberta in engineering geology, John Parker’s association with the north began in 1949 working in northern Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories with the exploration department of Eldorado Mining and Refining.
		He was appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories in 1979.
		Throughout his time as Commissioner, his main thrust was to move the Northwest Territories towards responsible government.
	www.cim.org /awards/JCsproule00.cfm (234 words)

	Canada Lands Surveys Act
		Plan sent to Minister or Commissioner (2) On the completion of the plotting of the plan referred to in subsection (1), the Surveyor General shall sign the plan and forward it, together with such supporting documents as the Surveyor General thinks necessary, to the Minister or the Commissioner.
		Where there is no appeal from the decision of the Minister or the Commissioner within the time limited therefor, the Minister or the Commissioner shall return the plan to the Surveyor General who shall confirm, amend, alter or vary the plan as directed by the Minister or the Commissioner.
		Where an appeal is taken from the decision of the Minister or the Commissioner, the court hearing the appeal may confirm, amend, alter or vary the decision of the Minister or the Commissioner and the Surveyor General shall accordingly confirm, amend, alter or vary the plan.
	www.nrcan.gc.ca /dmo/spcb/acts/canlnd_e.html (2780 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		Maksagak was sworn in by Mel Cappe, the clerk of the Privy Council.
		She was the first woman commissioner and the first Inuk commissioner of the Northwest Territories.
		Maksagak was also deputy commissioner of the Northwest Territories before being appointed commissioner in 1994.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut990427/nvt90409_03.html (569 words)

	872245 N.W.T. Ltd. (c.o.b. Richard Cadieux Wholesale) v. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		That the legislature intended the Commissioner to have the flexibility to choose the precise method of collecting the tax is evident from the words of ss.
		In that decision, the Commissioner states that the current practice (as set forth in the agreed statement of facts in the within proceedings) is not a requirement under the legislation.
		A decision of the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (incidentally one of the respondents in the within proceedings) is not, of course, binding on this court.
	www.tobaccolaw.org /documents/english/Cases/nwtrc.htm (2363 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Northwest Territories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The province of Manitoba was created in 1870, a tiny square around Winnipeg, and then enlarged in 1881 to a square region composing the modern province's south.In 1876, the District of Keewatin, at the centre of the territory, was separated from it.
		Between 1925 and 1999, the Northwest Territories measured 3 439 296 km² - larger than India.Finally, on April 1, 1999, the eastern three-fifths of the Northwest Territories (including all of Keewatin district and much of Mackenzie and Franklin) became a separate territory called Nunavut.
		http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030703.wnwt0703/BNStory/National/ Devolution of powers to the territory was an issue in the Northwest Territories general election, 2003.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Northwest_Territories (1159 words)

	Nunavut Act - ExploreNorth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		If both the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner are absent, ill or unable to act or both those offices are vacant, the judge of the Supreme Court of Nunavut with the earliest date of appointment to the Court has and may exercise and perform all of the powers, duties and functions of the Commissioner.
		Subject to this Act, the laws in force in the Northwest Territories on the coming into force of this section continue to be in force in Nunavut, in so far as they are not thereafter repealed, amended or rendered inoperable in respect of Nunavut.
		The judges of the Supreme Court of the Yukon Territory and of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories are, by virtue of those offices, judges of the Supreme Court of Nunavut.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/politics/n-actnunavut.htm (5086 words)

	Letter of finding regarding the video surveillance issue - Privacy Commissioner of Canada
		George Radwanski, the federal Privacy Commissioner, in his first decision under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPED), has told a Yellowknife security company that the installation of street surveillance cameras is unlawful.
		In his decision, Radwanksi held that both live video pictures and recorded video pictures of individuals qualify as "personal information" under the Act, and as such, cannot be collected or used in the context of a commercial activity without the informed consent of the information being taped.
		But since by operation of constitutional law any business venture in the Northwest Territories is a Federal Work, Undertaking or Business, section 30 operates to apply to Centurion Security Services as of January 1, 2001.
	www.privcom.gc.ca /media/an/nt_010620_e.asp (1598 words)

	Bill of Rights - American Revolution Timeline, History Tells The Story of America
		Thomas Jefferson headed a committee that proposed a plan for dividing the western territories, providing a temporary government for the West, and devising a method for new western states to enter the Union on an equal basis with the original states.
		At the meeting's conclusion, the commissioners suggested that all the states meet at a convention in Annapolis to discuss common commercial problems.
		The Northwest Ordinance provided for a plan of government, the creation of states, the acceptance of each new state as an equal of the original states, freedom of religion, right to a trial by jury, public support of education, and the prohibition of slavery.
	www.billofrights.com /Timeline.htm (4334 words)

	CanadaInfo: Provinces and Territories: Northwest Territories
		arge portions of Northwest Territories were subsequently removed to create the provinces of Manitoba (1870), Saskatchewan (1905) and Alberta (1905); the territories of Yukon (1898) and Nunavut (1999); and to add to the areas of Manitoba (1880, 1912), Ontario (1912), and Quebec (1912).
		he Northwest Territories is a land of contrasts: office towers and igloos; midnight sun and midday darkness; skilled tradesmen and shrewd trappers; dense evergreen forests and vast expanses of barren tundra.
		The remaining portion of the current territory is as yet unnamed and will continue to be called the Northwest Territories until a new constitution is adopted, probably during the general election on December 6, 1999.
	www.craigmarlatt.com /canada/provinces&territories/NT.html (394 words)

	A Look at the Provinces,Part XII:Northwest Territories & Nunavut
		The Northwest Territories and Nunavut lie north of 60.
		The monopoly of the North West Territories was given to the Hudson's Bay Company and in 1870 they had to sell their lands to the Canadian Government.
		After much fighting from the Inuit, the Northwest Territories were smallerised (I know that is not a word) once again.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/28277 (472 words)

	Canku Ota - January 25, 2003 - Four Nunavummiut Receive Order of Canada
		Former Nunavut and Northwest Territories commissioner Helen Maksagak was made a member of the Order of Canada.
		She served as the first woman and the first Inuk commissioner of the Northwest Territories and was appointed the first commissioner of the newly created Territory of Nunavut.
		His tireless efforts helped in the creation of this new territory through his roles as founding president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, as a lead negotiator in the Nunavut land claims process and as president of the Nunavut Construction Company.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues03/Co01252003/CO_01252003_Order_Canada.htm (677 words)

	The Honourable David Laird, 1876-81
		With his Secretary, Amédée E. Forget, who would later become Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories himself, and an escort of North-West Mounted Police, David Laird spent his first winter in the Territories at Fort Livingstone which was located near the Manitoba border approximately one mile northwest of present-day Pelly, Saskatchewan.
		David Laird served as Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories until his successor was appointed effective December 3, 1881.
		In 1898, he was appointed Indian Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, Manitoba, and Keewatin, a position he held until his death.
	www.assembly.ab.ca /lao/library/lt-gov/laird.htm (645 words)

	Transport Dangerous Goods (TDG) Administrative Agreements - Northwest Territories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		enforcement shall be the responsibility of the Northwest Territories, pursuant to the provincial Acts cited herein.
		Canada and the Northwest Territories will, consistent with resource availability, jointly maintain a program to ensure a high level of public awareness respecting the role, purpose and extent of the regulations and supporting programs; and the responsibilities arising from the legislation and regulations.
		Canada and the Northwest Territories also agree that the Federal and Provincial Coordinators shall endeavour that any potential Person in Charge and all Transport Dangerous Goods Inspectors are made aware of all terms of this Schedule.
	www.tc.gc.ca /tdg/documents/agreements/nt.htm (2536 words)

	Arctic Winter Games
		It's a sentiment shared by Stuart Hodgson, the commissioner of the Northwest Territories, and Yukon Commissioner James Smith.
		Commissioner James Smith (Yukon), Commissioner Stuart Hodgson (Northwest Territories) and Governor Walter Hickel (Alaska) began the Arctic Winter Games in 1969.
		The 1990 Games in Yellowknife were considered a great success due to the support of the Honourable Gordon Wray, the Government of the Northwest Territories and the major support of the City of Yellowknife.
	www.awg.ca /about.htm (1920 words)

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