The flag of the NorthwestTerritories, Canada was adopted in 1969 by the Council of the NorthwestTerritories.
It features a blue field on which is a Canadian pale (a white stripe taking up half the width of the flag), with at the centre, the shield from the Coat of Arms of the NorthwestTerritories.
The blue represents the abundant NorthwestTerritories waters, whereas the white represents snow and ice.
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 rest of the NorthwestTerritories had no repesentation in the House of Commons until the early 1960s when the NorthwestTerritories electoral district was created in recognition of Inuit having been given the right to vote in 1953.
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