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  Northwest Territories - MSN Encarta
The small size of the economy and the high cost of delivering services to the residents of the Northwest Territories means that the federal government must provide around 90 percent of the territorial government’s budget.
Communities far away from Yellowknife have higher costs, and communities served only by aircraft have the highest food and housing costs.
In 1996 the unemployment rate in the Northwest Territories was 12 percent, but this figure does not reflect wide variations by community.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561711_3/population.html   (1135 words)

  
  Northwest Territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1876, the District of Keewatin, at the centre of the territory, was separated from it.
The rest of the Northwest Territories had no repesentation in the House of Commons until the early 1960s when the Northwest Territories electoral district was created in recognition of Inuit having been given the right to vote in 1953.
The Commissioner of Northwest Territories is Tony Whitford.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northwest_Territories   (1739 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Northwest Territories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 January 1, 2005.
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.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/northwest_territories   (2059 words)

  
 Colombia: Return to hope - forcibly displaced communities of Urabá and Medio Atrato region
The inhabitants of the community of San José de Apartadó, located in the municipality of Apartadó, were forcibly displaced in the course of 1996 and 1997 as the paramilitaries and the army sought to wrest military control of the Antioquia Urabá region from the FARC and remnants of the EPL.
One of the demands of the community to ensure that the parties to the conflict respect their right to life and not to be drawn into hostilities is to insist that they should not enter the defined perimeters of the Peace Community.
The communities are aware that they are returning in the midst of war, that there is strong presence of both guerrilla forces and paramilitary forces in the area and that their security depends on the parties in the conflict respecting their rights as civilians.
www.amnestyusa.org /regions/americas/document.do?id=2C3AD0DA9CDD6EDF802568EF00668300   (18476 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Canada - Northwest Territories, Nunavut & the Yukon
Index to the 1901 Census of The Territories 
A list of addresses for genealogical and historical societies in the territories.
A list of addresses for genealogical and historical societies in the territory.
www.cyndislist.com /nw-yukon.htm   (2224 words)

  
 ::: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection :::
To the west and northwest of the Coeur d'Alene were the Spokane and Kalispel, to the north and northeast the Kootenai and Pend Oreille, to the east the Flathead, and placed to the south and southwest of the Coeur d'Alene were the Nez Perce and Palus.
The communal lodges could accommodate several families, each represented by a separate "fire pit." In addition to the communal lodges and used throughout the year were conical structured, tule-mat covered lodges.
Communal deer hunting and ice fishing would continue throughout the winter, culminating a yearly subsistence-cycle in which roots and berries, fish and salmon, and game meat each contributed about a third to the total diet of the Coeur d'Alene.
content.lib.washington.edu /aipnw/frey.html   (3785 words)

  
 Funding/Grant Writing Resources in Wisconsin - Center for Community and Economic Development - UWEX
The Community Development Zone Program promotes a business relocating or expanding to Wisconsin on a particular site in any area of the state that suffers from high unemployment, declining income and property values, and other indicators of economic distress.
This program can assist communities of less than 50,000 population that are faced with emergency repairs and expenditures related to restoring use of its infrastructure that has suffered damages as a result of natural or other catastrophic events...
Community Disaster Loan Program -Provides funds to any eligible jurisdiction in a designated disaster area that has suffered a substantial loss of tax and other revenue.
www.uwex.edu /ces/cced/communities/grants   (7418 words)

  
 Image:Flag of the Northwest Territories.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Canadian provinces and territories by area
List of Canadian provinces and territories by population
List of Canadian provinces and territories by gross domestic product
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_Northwest_Territories.svg   (200 words)

  
 History of Minnesota's Lake Superior
Their July rendezvous was the once-a-year meeting with the "northwesters" before the voyageurs made their way back down the Lakes to Montreal.
Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey considered the potential mineral wealth of the region when he asked for a road to Lake Superior in his first message to the territorial legislature in 1849.
In the first three years of the 1890s the major communities and many of the significant Mesabi mines were located through the efforts of hundreds of individuals.
www.mnhs.org /places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/mpdf/mpdf1.html   (14132 words)

  
 Rural economic development resources
Summarizes population redistribution trends in the rural and small town communities that are an important part of the social, economic and political fabric of the country.
Reviews the data on job displacement nationally and in rural communities, with a focus on regions of the country where job losses due to displacement are significant and the rate of displacement has been increasing.
The Mid South Delta Initiative (MSDI) is a long-term economic, community and leadership development effort focused on 55 contiguous counties and parishes along the Mississippi River in rural Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
www.raconline.org /info_guides/communities/econ_dev.php   (6469 words)

  
 Washington County, Oregon -- Animal Services - Wildlife
The Pacific Northwest is graced with an abundance and variety of native mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, fl-tail deer, raccoons, beavers and coyotes, hawks, eagles, ducks and geese, and many other wild animals grace our woodlands and wetlands.
Listed below are wildlife proofing methods you can use to limit or eliminate wildlife problems.
However, of the many species native to the Northwest, only the western rattlesnake is poisonous and it is extremely rare for its bite to be fatal to humans.
www.co.washington.or.us /deptmts/at/dog/services/wildlife.htm   (5557 words)

  
 Sacramento River Portal and Library
Fish communities of the Sacramento River Basin: Implications for conservation of native fishes in the Central Valley, California.
Four fish community metrics - percentage of native fish, percentage of intolerant fish, number of tolerant species, and percentage of fish with external anomalies - were responsive to environmental quality.
However, management agencies have generally failed to recognize this, as exemplified by the federal government’s decision to exclude the non-anadromous forms in the ESA listing for steelhead, despite their recognition that they are important to the persistence of the anadromous forms.
www.watershedportal.org /listDocOfType_html?Type=24   (13607 words)

  
 Text-Only Version--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
With segregation, especially after the 1906 race riots shattered the carefully-crafted veneer of the "New South," Atlanta's fl communities coalesced around the famous religious and educational institutions that emerged after the Civil War, including Gammon Theological Seminary southeast of downtown and Atlanta University and the Washington Park neighborhood on the west.
Knight Park, located in the northwest section of the neighborhood, is an open recreational space with sloping hills and mature trees.
A community building built in 1945 is located within the park and is used for storage.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/atlanta/text.htm   (13968 words)

  
 Con.WEB: Issue 69
Northwest utility retail green power programs have collectively doubled their sales and customer participants in the past year, according to a new report from Renewable Northwest Project.
However, the report said, "The most exciting marketing strategies arose from utility partnerships with community and environmental organizations." Nine of the surveyed utilities fit this category, and their average customer participation rate is more than double the others, 2.7 percent compared to 1.2 percent.
Meanwhile, "Northwest utilities are on the leading edge of efforts in the U.S. to bring Green power sources into the grid," the report said.
www.newsdata.com /enernet/conweb/conweb69.html   (9121 words)

  
 Periodic report of the Special Rapporteur on
She is also grateful to the many intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, too numerous to list, which have shared with her their insights concerning the human rights situation in the former Yugoslavia.
In a communication to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Special Rapporteur described the importance she attaches to the situation of children in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The transmitters of "Radio Northwest", which had been broadcasting for two years, were seized by the Government on 6 September 1996 despite their request for the allotment of a frequency.
www.unhchr.ch /Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/2c445cc175eacebf80256664004e7fac?Opendocument   (13830 words)

  
 Help.com - quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Being the sole Canadian province whose population is mainly French Canadian, and where English is not an official language, Quebec is also the sole territory in North America, except for the archipelago of St-Pierre and Miquelon, where the French language is spoken by a majority of the population.
The province occupies a vast territory (nearly three times the size of France), most of which is very sparsely populated.
North of the St. Lawrence River Valley, the territory of Quebec is extremely rich in resources in its coniferous forests, lakes, and rivers—pulp and paper, lumber, and hydroelectricity are still some of the province's most important industries.
help.com /wiki/Quebec   (4057 words)

  
 LISTSERV 15.0 - CLIMATEACTION Archives
Following is is list of entities participating in the design phase of the Chicago Climate Exchange: Agriliance: Agriliance is a partnership of agricultural producer- owners, local cooperatives and regional cooperatives.
SC Johnson is a family-owned and -managed business dedicated to innovative, high-quality products, excellence in the workplace and a long-term commitment to the environment and the communities in which it operates.
He added that for the renewable energy to successfully play its role, all barriers and strategies for their removal must be identified in order to allow greater market penetration of the new energy technologies.
list.uvm.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0111&L=climateaction&T=0&F=&S=&P=508   (17526 words)

  
 CANADA - Information Pages dealing with our history
The fur trade served both to keep alive an interest in the territory and at the same time to discourage the development of agriculture, the surest foundation of a colony in the New World.
Improvement in overland communications was a primary condition imposed by the new province.
On May 4, 1992, voters in the Northwest Territories authorized the partition of their huge area into two separate territories, one to become a self-governing homeland for Inuit, or Eskimos.
users.efni.com /~duenorth/canada/history.html   (13218 words)

  
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Community groups have understood for some time that many DOE sites will not be cleaned up, in the usual sense of the word, even after DOE declares it has finished with remediation measures.
The community should also be involved in periodic reviews, such as the five-year review cycle under CERCLA (the Superfund law) to re-evaluate the effectiveness and performance of long term stewardship activities.
Additionally, independent technical expertise should be provided to communities to assist them in wading through the many technical documents that form the basis for key decisions.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/abolition-usa/archive/abolition-usa.200012   (15793 words)

  
 FactsCanada.ca -- Sunday Newsletter 2001-06Su
Phoenix is an abandoned mining town in the Boundary district outside Greenwood, British Columbia, and is the highest city in the province at an elevation of 1400 metres above sea level.
The community had its beginnings around 1895 as the centre of the Phoenix Copper mining camp and was incorporated on October 11, 1900.
The Northwest Territories are now the third largest at 1 346 106 square kilometres, so one can imagine how much area the "old" Northwest Territories comprised when compared to the rest of Canada.
www.factscanada.ca /sunday/sunday-2001-06-02-11.shtml   (2402 words)

  
 North Cascades National Park: Stillwell Bridge EA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Where abandoned roads have been included within wilderness, they may be used as trails, restored to natural conditions, or managed as a cultural resource.
This forest community is dominated by a well-developed canopy of mountain hemlock and silver fir, with less frequent red cedar, yellow cedar, and Pacific yew interspersed.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists six species as federally endangered or threatened for which there is suitable habitat in the vicinity of the project area or along the helicopter flight path (Table 2).
www.nps.gov /noca/stillwellea.htm   (9478 words)

  
 African Americans and the Old West
Lewis and Clark kept a journal of their travels from 1825-1828 which listed Sacajawea as dead, but no exact date and place was ever recorded of her later life.
Thus, in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, it would be up to the new settlers' vote to be a Free State or Slave State according to the "Popular Sovereignty." This became the issue from Kansas and Nebraska in 1854.
The community saved it from being demolished, and, after 5 years of refurbishing the home, the Museum moved to California Street and today is the most comprehensive one stop collection of African American resources dealing with the Old West.
www.liu.edu /CWIS/CWP/library/african/west/west.htm   (12045 words)

  
 The Dallas Morning News | DallasMorningViews Blog
- are to abandon their previously adored champion when they detect ideological deviation.
ABANDON - We use the sad stories of the child abandonment cases that have made headlines this week to remind readers in very human terms of the safeguards in place for placing young ones safely if a mother or father feels he or she cannot care for that child.
While, in fact, there's no really appropriate place to abandon your child, we try to shed some light on what the best decision among many bad ones is. Michael writing.
dallasmorningviews.beloblog.com   (13813 words)

  
 Gender Parity in Nunavut?
On the other hand, the Northwest Territories' government was against the proposal, and the Nunavut caucus in the local parliament in Yellowknife did not support the proposal either.
The meeting in the school has been called on the occasion of the approaching plebiscite on whether or not the new self-governing territory of Nunavut should have a legislative assembly with an equal number of man and women.
Five out of six communities in Kitikmeot had voted 'yes', but the voter turnout percentage was low.
arcticcircle.uconn.edu /SEEJ/Nunavut/gender.html   (3659 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
The Iowa region successively formed a part of the territories of Louisiana (1805–12), Missouri (1812–21), Michigan (1834–36), and Wisconsin (1836–38); between 1821 and 1834 it was an unorganized area of the U.S. In 1808 the federal government established Fort Madison, but the garrison was withdrawn in 1813 because of hostility by the native Indian tribes.
All of the present-day state and parts of what are now Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota were separated from Wisconsin Territory in 1838 and merged as Iowa Territory.
The territory applied for admission to the Union in 1844; on Dec. 28, 1846, Iowa became the 29th state.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/iowa.html   (3390 words)

  
 Chapter Excerpt: Nuts About Squirrels by Richard L. Mallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The most common squirrel in the Northwest is the nonnative eastern gray squirrel, which was introduced to the Seattle area in the early 1900s and has become well established in urban and suburban areas.
There are other cries in his territory too, usually from some poor soul that crossed paths with him, or just plain crossed him.
You can find them in abandoned woodpecker holes, outside in nests of leaves and twigs, in the ground, or in fancy nesting boxes you have mounted for songbirds.
www.twbookmark.com /books/63/0446675768/chapter_excerpt10701.html   (7275 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The list is updated annually and is available in hard copy and through electronic mail at: ncese@aip.org AGI's goals are to advance and promote the geosciences through improved public information, expanded professional services to the geoscience community, and increased earth science educational programs at the college and precollege levels.
Most utilities provide them to schools in their service territories free of charge; however, the booklets are available from the publisher for a fee.
The lesson plan also features a listing, which can be used as a handout, of other resources for information or further reading and an explanation of common myths surrounding packaging and garbage.
www.eia.doe.gov /pub/eia.directories/educlist   (15767 words)

  
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A history of the newspapers and magazines published in Kansas from the organization of Kansas territory, 1854 to 1 Jan 1916; together with brief statistical information of the counties, citiesWilliam E. Connelley, sec.
Index of landowners, Patron's list of businessmen and farmers, including township plat maps.",,,P,10 80-0107,,929.378162,Her,KS,Lyon,,"Herrick, James L. compiler"," Death Notices as Listed in Neosho Valley Hartford Times, and Burials in Hartford Cemetery, Lyon Co., KS.
The Northwest Territory.",,n.d.,, 75-0767,,929.3771813,Ran,OH,Fayette,,"Rankin, Maude Post & Robinson, George A. Jr."," Chancery and Common Pleas Court Records, Fayette Co., Ohio, 1828-1878.",,1957,, 86-0079,,929.377191,Mus,OH,Muskingum,,Muskingum County OH Genealogical Society, Muskingum Co. Cemeteries - map of the county with an index to location of the cemeteries.,,n.d.,, 86-0073,,929.377191,Mus,OH,Muskingum,,Muskingum County OH Genealogical Society, Cemetery Inscriptions.
members.cox.net /ubert/TGSLibraryListMarch2004.csv   (11601 words)

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