Search results for "Northwest Territories" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... that would become the basis for the Northwest Ordinance three years later. ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway ... Mackenzie River runs through the Northwest Territories and empties into ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- power to prohibit slavery in the federal territories and that slaves were not ... other outposts in what was then the Northwest Territories and the Louisiana ...9 KB (1,416 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- Great Slave Lake (French: Grand lac des Esclaves) is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (behind Great Bear Lake) ...11 KB (1,706 words) - 13:20, 22 January 2023
- (the other two being the Northwest Territories and Nunavut). It has the smallest population of any province or territory in Canada, about 35 ...24 KB (3,529 words) - 21:38, 4 June 2023
- is at Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada, where it is found in large quantities associated with silver. Some of the highest ...4 KB (526 words) - 13:35, 3 May 2023
- was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 ... of the Nunavut Territory from the Northwest Territories in 1999 is one part ...26 KB (3,796 words) - 01:18, 17 November 2022
- The status of slavery in these territories would be determined by ... the Wilmot Proviso to the western territories and because of the Democratic ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- Quebec), two Canadian territories (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), and ... in 1870 to Canada as part of the Northwest Territories when the trade monopoly ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- order to open up the lucrative trading territories of the Pacific Northwest. ... extending North West Company fur trading territories. Over the next few seasons ...17 KB (2,468 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- 12, 1793, and like the Ordinance for the Northwest Territory and Article Four ... courts and the inferior courts of territories in enforcing the law; ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 07:11, 15 April 2024
- dollars). This land became the Northwest Territories. In 1870, Parliament ... act as a police force for the vast Northwest Territories. ...20 KB (2,893 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- found in Alaska, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories of Canada. , found in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada and in ...20 KB (2,969 words) - 19:16, 26 November 2023
- bring out the issue of slavery and the territories. In the South in particular ... the House in language modeled after the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- Coast, the temperate rainforests of the Northwest, the Rocky Mountains, the ... and Wyoming can be considered the Northwest; more narrowly, part or ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- expanded the Greco-Bactrian dynasty into northwest and northern India. Their ... his daughter in marriage and ceded the territories of Arachosia. In return ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 15:30, 28 January 2023
- rest of Nunavut, separated from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 ... was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba ... In the 1870s, the government of Canada formed the Northwest Territories ...28 KB (3,852 words) - 03:30, 23 December 2022
- exhibits of Indian arts from the Northwest Coast. In 1923, he was ... join the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories. During his years in the ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 10:58, 9 May 2023
- Traditional definitions of the Midwest include the Northwest Ordinance ... *Illinois: Old Northwest, Ohio River, and Great Lakes state. ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- of the British Isles. It lies to the northwest of Continental Europe, ... of offshore islands and several overseas territories in addition to Great Britain. ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. The decision for the ... the Wisconsin Enabling Act, and the Northwest Ordinance. ...32 KB (5,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- lands later became part of Canada as the Northwest Territories, making up the vast majority of Canada's land area. [[Image:Mississippi River ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- trail proceeded 2,170 miles west through territories and land later to become ... of his staff were former employees of the Northwest Company, known as Nor& ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- in the Indian Ocean, 1645 miles (2650 km) northwest of Perth in Western Australia ... a dry season. The wet season, when the northwest monsoons blow, is generally ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- Vizcaíno's expedition mapped the northwest coast of Baja California ... missions were established in their territories, particularly by the Spanish ...21 KB (3,010 words) - 10:25, 7 June 2023
- the exception of a few streams in the northwest and extreme south. Encyclopædia ... further divided into northern and southern territories. ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- The conquered tribes began to move northwest into Botswana, destroying ... of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa. ...20 KB (2,852 words) - 19:53, 20 November 2023
- Navy officer who explored the Pacific Northwest coast between 1791 and 1794. ... to develop a culture rich in arts. The Northwest Coast First Nations tribes ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- Alaska, east through the Yukon and Northwest Territories, south through British ... in Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, and Yukon Territory ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- the acquisition of vast western territories from France known as the ... power as new states fashioned from the territories brought resources and ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- ===Traversing "the Northwest Passage"=== In 1903, Amundsen ... Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the Northwest Territories in Canada (separating ...24 KB (3,885 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- quot;); in various parts of the Northwest Territories, mainly on the coast ... Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Northwest Territories), Greenland's ...53 KB (8,160 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- of Australia's external dependent territories. The Norfolk Island pine ... meters) above sea level, located in the northwest quadrant of the island ...20 KB (2,910 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- They are a people of North America's northwest coast, inhabiting the southern ... |left|250px|Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest lived on salmon ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- in 1869 and incorporated into the Northwest Territories, a lack of attention ... absorbing land from the Northwest Territories until it attained ...41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- #039;s only remnant of its vast former territories of New France. ... It is a land of rugged hills in its northwest and a rocky lowland in ...22 KB (3,091 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- when he succeeded to the ruler-ship of territories centered around the city ... of present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and northwest India and Pakistan, and ...15 KB (2,234 words) - 16:57, 8 December 2022
- states or potential United States territories. While Americans generally ... it is notable that the colonies and territories of British North America ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- extending North West Company fur trading territories. ====Treaty of ... Americans were to relinquish their territories to the United States government ...33 KB (4,861 words) - 19:50, 28 November 2023
- North-Western Territory to form the Northwest Territories, where Métis' ... after the Klondike Gold Rush in the Northwest Territories, the Canadian government ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- troops of archers... The Hapiru sack the territories of the king. If there ... in gaining control of surrounding territories. Finkelstein also suggests ...34 KB (6,076 words) - 02:40, 24 July 2023
- in 935. In 993, the Khitan invaded Goryeo's northwest border with 800,000 troops. They withdrew, ceding territory to the east of the Yalu River ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and ... (west), Saskatchewan (east), Northwest Territories (north), and the ...36 KB (5,234 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- systems that drain in roughly northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest ... 45 million acres off a peninsula in northwest New Guinea. The immense ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- in the Acasta Gneiss in the Northwest Territories on the Canadian Shield, and on other cratonic regions such as those on the Fennoscandian Shield ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:42, 5 May 2022
- in the Xinjiang and Tsinghai regions of northwest China, and another 205 ... the remote region of the Altai Mountains, northwest of the Hami oasis. Gradually ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- to the southeast, Mogoditshane to the northwest, Mochudi to the east, and ... African governments sought to have the territories transferred, Britain kept ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 December 2023
- Artisan Alvin Kanak of Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories (now in the territory of Nunavut), created an inuksuk as a gift to the city for Expo ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 11:05, 6 March 2024
- Island. The Jason Islands lie to the northwest of the main archipelago ... regarding the de-colonization of all territories still under foreign occupation ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
