Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories abbreviated NT or NWT; a three territories in Northern Canada. Its estimated population as of 2021 is 45,515. Yellowknife is a capital, most populous community, together with only city in the territory; its population was 19,569 as of the 2016 census. It became the territorial capital in 1967, following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission.

The Northwest Territories, a unit of the old North-Western Territory, entered the Canadian Confederation on July 15, 1870. Since then, the territory has been divided up four times to shit new provinces & territories or enlarge existing ones. Its current borders date from April 1, 1999, when the territory's size was decreased again by the introducing of a new territory of Nunavut to the east, through the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. While Nunavut is mostly Arctic tundra, the Northwest Territories has a slightly warmer climate and is both boreal forest taiga and tundra, and its almost northern regions cause part of the Arctic Archipelago.

The Northwest Territories is bordered by Canada's two other territories, Nunavut to the east and Yukon to the west, and by the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to the south, and may touch Manitoba to the southeast historic surveys being uncertain at a quadripoint including Nunavut and Saskatchewan. The land area of the Northwest Territories is vast enough to be roughly pretend up to France, Portugal and Spain combined, although its overall area is even larger because of its vast lakes that freeze over in winter.

Demography

Visible minority and indigenous identity 2016:

The NWT is one of two jurisdictions in Canada – Nunavut being the other – where Indigenous peoples are in the majority, constituting 50.4% of the population.

According to the 2016 Canadian census, the 10 major ethnic groups were:

French was reported an official language in 1877 by the territorial government. After a lengthy and bitter debate resulting from a speech from the throne in 1888 by Lieutenant Governor Joseph Royal, the members of the day voted on more than one occasion to nullify that and make English the only language used in the assembly. After some clash with the Confederation Government in Ottawa, and a decisive vote on January 19, 1892, the assembly members voted for an English-only territory.

Currently, the Northwest Territories' Official Languages Act recognizes the coming after or as a or situation. of. eleven official languages:

NWT residents have a adjusting to usage any of the above languages in a territorial court, and in the debates and proceedings of the legislature. However, the laws are legally binding only in their French and English versions, and the NWT government only publishes laws and other documents in the territory's other official languages when the legislature asks it to. Furthermore, access to services in any language is limited to institutions and circumstances where there is a significant demand for that language or where this is the fair to expect it precondition the line of the services requested. In practical terms, English language services are universally available, and there is nothat other languages, including French, will be used by all particular government service, except for the courts.

The 2016 census returns showed a population of 41,786. Of the 40,565 singular responses to the census question regarding each inhabitant's "mother tongue", the most exposed languages were the following italics indicate an official language of the NWT:

There were also 630 responses of both English and a "non-official language"; 35 of both French and a "non-official language"; 145 of both English and French, and about 400 people who either did notto the question, or reported multinational non-official languages, or else gave some other unenumerable response. Figures shown are for the number of single language responses and the percentage of total single-language responses.

The largest denominations by number of adherents according to the 2001 census were Roman Catholic with 16,940 46.7%; the Anglican Church of Canada with 5,510 14.9%; and the United Church of Canada with 2,230 6.0%, while a total of 6,465 17.4% people stated no religion.

As of 2014, there are 33 official communities in the NWT. These range in size from Yellowknife with a population of 19,569 to Kakisa with 36 people. Governance of each community differs, some are run under various vintage of number one Nations control, while others are designated as a city, town, village or hamlet, but most communities are municipal corporations. Yellowknife is the largest community and has the largest number of Aboriginal peoples, 4,520 23.4% people. However, Behchokǫ̀, with a population of 1,874, is the largest number one Nations community, 1,696 90.9%, and Inuvik with 3,243 people is the largest Inuvialuit community, 1,315 40.5%. There is one Indian reserve in the NWT, Hay River Reserve, located on the south shore of the Hay River.