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Yeloowknife (coming soon)
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Whale-Watching
Seasmoke Whale-Watching
There are no other tours on earth quite like ours!
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Bed & Breakkfasts
Greenwoods inn
Green Woods Inn is a beautifully converted Victorian country home sitting in two acres of grounds surrounded by lakes, rivers and countryside in an area steeped in Ontario's history.
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312 Seaton
312 Seaton, is a detached Victorian home on a quiet tree lined street in downtown Toronto‚s historical "Cabbagetown".
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Accomodation on the Beach
Alert bay, BC
250. 974 5225
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A Good Knight B&B
Calgary, Alberta
Tel.
403.270 7628
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Northwest territories
Destination profile
Located in northern Canada, the Northwest territoies are east of Yukon, west and south of Nunavut (Canada's two other territories), and north of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Its capital has been Yellowknife since 1967.
Geographical features include the vast Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes, as well as the immense Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni River, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Territorial islands in the Arctic Archipelago include Banks Island, Parry Peninsula, Prince Patrick Island, and parts of Victoria Island and Melville Island. The highest point is Mount Nirvana near the border with Yukon at elevation 2773 m (9098 ft).
History
The present-day territory was created in 1870, when the Hudson's Bay Company transferred Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory to the government of Canada. This immense region comprised all of modern Canada except British Columbia, the coast of the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence River valley and the southern third of Quebec, the Maritimes, Newfoundland, and the Labrador coast. It also excluded the Arctic Islands except the southern half of Baffin Island; these remained under direct British rule until 1880.
The name of the territory is traced to North-Western Territory, a region named for the geographical location relative to Rupert's Land.
EXTERNAL LINKS
* Government of Northwest Territories
* Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
* NWT Archives
* NWT Historical Timeline
* Lessons From the Land: interactive journeys of NWT traditional Aboriginal trails
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