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Northwest Territories - Search View - MSN Encarta (9648 words) |
 | The Northwest Territories is located in northwestern Canada and occupies nearly 13 percent of the country’s landmass. |
| The Northwest Territories is bounded to the south by three provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. |
| At the beginning of the 20th century the Northwest Territories was the homeland of Indians, Métis, and Inuit. |
| Welcome to the Northwest Territories, Canada (1509 words) |
| 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 kilometers and a population of 42,944 as of January 1, 2005. |
| The Northwest Territories are located east of Yukon, west of Nunavut, and north of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. |
| 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. |
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