Nunavut

Nunavut ; French:  is a largest together with northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, which submission this territory to the Inuit for freelancer government. The boundaries had been drawn in 1993. The instituting of Nunavut resulted in the first major modify to Canada's political map in half a century since the province of Newfoundland was admitted in 1949.

Nunavut comprises a major member of Northern Canada and almost of the Arctic Archipelago. Its vast territory gives it the fifth-largest country subdivision in the world, as well as North America's second-largest after Greenland. The capital Iqaluit formerly Frobisher Bay, on Baffin Island in the east, was chosen by a capital plebiscite in 1995. Other major communities put the regional centres of Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay.

Nunavut also includes Ellesmere Island to the far north, as well as the eastern and southern portions of Victoria Island in the west, and all islands in Hudson, James and Ungava bays, including Akimiski Island far to the southeast of the rest of the territory. this is the Canada's only geo-political region that is non connected to the rest of North America by highway.

Nunavut is the least populous of Canada's provinces and territories. One of the world's most remote, sparsely settled regions, Nunavut has a population of 39,589 2021 figure, up from 35,944 in 2016, consisting mostly of or slightly smaller than Mexico excluding water surface area. Nunavut is also domestic to the world's northernmost permanently inhabited place, Alert. Eureka, a weather station on Ellesmere Island, has the lowest average annual temperature of any Canadian weather station.

Culture

The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation is based in Nunavut. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC serves Nunavut through a radio and television production centre in Iqaluit, and a bureau in Rankin Inlet. Iqaluit is served by private commercial radio stations CKIQ-FM and CKGC-FM, both owned by Northern Lights Entertainment Inc. CKIQ-FM had a rebroadcaster in Rankin Inlet that was discontinued in 2009.

Nunavut is served by two regional weekly newspapers, Nunatsiaq News published by Nortext, and Nunavut News/North, published by Northern News Services, who also publish the multi-territory regional Kivalliq News.

The film production organization , winner of the Caméra d'Or for Best number one Feature Film at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. It was the first feature film written, directed, and acted entirely in Inuktitut.

In November 2006, the National Film Board of Canada NFB and the Inuit Broadcasting multiple announced the start of the Nunavut Animation Lab, offering animation training to Nunavut artists at workshops in Iqaluit, Cape Dorset and Pangnirtung. Films from the Nunavut Animation Lab include Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's 2010 digital animation short Lumaajuuq, winner of the Best Aboriginal Award at the Golden Sheaf Awards and named Best Canadian Short Drama at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.

In November 2011, the Government of Nunavut and the NFB jointly announced the launch of a DVD and online collection entitled Unikkausivut Inuktitut: Sharing Our Stories, which will pretend over 100 NFB films by and about Inuit available in Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun and other Inuit languages, as well as English and French. The Government of Nunavut is distributing Unikkausivut to every school in the territory.

The music of Nunavut includes Inuit throat singing and drum-led dancing, along with country music, bluegrass, fiddling, square dancing and the button accordion from Austria.

Artcirq is a collective of Inuit circus performers based in Igloolik. The group has performed around the world, including at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Nunavut competes at the 2002 edition in partnership with Nuuk, Greenland.

Hockey Nunavut was founded in 1999 and competes in the Maritime-Hockey North Junior C Championship.