These specifications mostly occur in non-European contexts – such as the coat of arms of Nunavut and the former Republic of Bophuthatswana, with the arms of North Dakota ( as distinguished from its seal ) providing an even more unusual example, while the State of Connecticut specifies a " rococo " shield – but not completely, as the Scottish Public Register records an escutcheon of oval form for the Lanarkshire Master Plumbers ' and Domestic Engineers ' ( Employers ') Association, and a shield of square form for the Anglo Leasing organisation.

In Cambridge Bay, Nunavut | Cambridge Bay, Canada in May 2009, the Mars Institute's Moon-1 HMMWV Rover waits for a C-130 Hercules from the 109th Airlift Squadron to airlift it to Resolute Bay Airport.

However, one of the variants of western Nunavut is called Inuinnaqtun to distinguish itself from the dialects of eastern Canada, while the variants of the Northwest Territories are sometimes called Inuvialuktun and have in the past sometimes been called Inuktun.

There was some discussion of changing the name of the Northwest Territories after the splitting off of Nunavut, possibly to a term from an Aboriginal language.

The nearest permanently inhabited place is Alert in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, which is located from the Pole.

Jack Iyerak Anawak, Member of Parliament from Nunatsiaq, Nunavut, suggested the name Nanuq polar bear in honour of Canada's Inuit people and their northern culture ; however, this culturally meaningful proposal went largely unnoticed beside the popular " toonie ".

" Early Eocene Leptictida, Pantolesta, Creodonta, Carnivora, and Mesonychidae ( Mammalia ) from the Eureka Sound Group, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut ".

* Roscoe River, flows from Nunavut to Northwest Territories, Canada

Later, the third territory of Nunavut was carved from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999.

Northern Canada, defined politically to comprise ( from west to east ) Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.

There are also many more recent immigrants from around the world ; of the territories, Yukon has the largest percentage of non-Aboriginal inhabitants, while Nunavut the smallest.

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.

Category: Artists from Nunavut

* The Empty Quarter — most of Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Colorado from Denver west, as well as the eastern portions of Oregon, California, Washington, all of Alberta and Northern Canada ( including what is now Nunavut ), northern Arizona, parts of New Mexico ( mainly the area controlled by the Navajo Nation ), and British Columbia east of the Coast Ranges.

In the consensus government system of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada, in which the premier is chosen among and by a vote of the members of the non-partisan legislature, a vote of no confidence removes the premier and cabinet from office and permits the members to elect a new premier.

* Nunavut → Nunavummiuq ( from Inuktitut )

" Vulnerability to Climate Change in Igloolik, Nunavut: What We Can Learn from the Past and Present ".

In North America it breeds in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Nunavut, Greenland ( and to a lesser extent Alaska ), in Eurasia it breeds Spitsbergen, and areas of northern Russia from the Taymyr Peninsula to the New Siberian Islands.

As with the house that sits on them, the grounds too were transformed throughout the decades: Lady Byng created the existing rock garden, with a reflecting pool and wild corner for growing trilliums and orchids ; a totem pole by Kwakiutl carver Mungo Martin was gifted to the Earl Alexander of Tunis by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia-in-Council ; the Fountain of Hope was initiated by Gerda Hnatyshyn to mark the International Year of Disabled Persons, built in front of Rideau Hall, and dedicated to Terry Fox ; and an inukshuk by artist Kananginak Pootoogook, from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, was built to commemorate the second National Aboriginal Day, in 1997.

In 1984 Kenn Harper, a historian from Iqaluit, Nunavut, wrote an article about Hans Island which was published in the local newspaper Hainang, in Qaanaaq ( Thule ) in northwestern Greenland.

The Ontario Regional office, in operation since 1968 from Toronto, serves both Ontario and Nunavut.

This is a contemporary work created by artisan Alvin Kanak of Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories ( which is now in the territory of Nunavut that separated from the Northwest Territories in 1999 ).

One of Okalik's primary goals as premier of Nunavut was to make the territory economically self-sufficient, as currently 90 % of their budget comes from the federal government.

The issue of " decentralization " or the location of territorial and head-quarters level government functions in one or more of the 10 " decentralized " Nunavut communities was an integral part of the planning of Nunavut from the time of the Nunavut Implementation Commission, and the Office of the Interim Commissioner.

The Northwest Territories entered the Canadian Confederation July 15, 1870, but the current borders were formed April 1, 1999, with the creation of Nunavut.

Labrador ’ s extreme northern tip, at 60 ° 22 ′ N, shares a short border with Nunavut.

The Inuit are the largest group of Aboriginal peoples in Northern Canada, and 61. 5 % of all Canada's Inuit live in Northern Canada, with Nunavut accounting for 52. 8 %.

Along with the District of Keewatin and the District of Mackenzie, it was one of the three districts of the old Northwest Territories before the formation of Nunavut in 1999, at which point the district ceased to exist, although as an administrative district of the NWT it had ceased to function several years prior to the splitting off of Nunavut.

In the process, Victoria Island was divided with approximately two-thirds of its area falling in Nunavut, and several other islands were also divided between the two territories.

In 1999, the federal government created Nunavut pursuant to a land claim agreement reached with Inuit, the indigenous people of Canada ’ s Eastern Arctic.

The Government of Nunavut is currently negotiating with the Government of Canada on a devolution agreement.

Devolution over natural resources to the Government of Nunavut moved forward with the appointment of a Ministerial Representative for Nunavut Devolution.

The Representative has held meetings with interested parties including the Boards established under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement ( NLCA ), territorial and federal government departments in order to determine if devolution will occur and if so the future mandate of devolution.

These Divisions are Quebec, Ontario, Western Provinces, and the Maritimes, each with 24 Senators, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, each with 1 Senator, and Newfoundland and Labrador has 6 Senators, making for a total of 105 Senators.

Category: Places in Nunavut with Aboriginal majority populations

Category: Places in Nunavut with Aboriginal majority populations

A similar process with the Inuit in the NWT brought about the creation of the new territory of Nunavut.

Though Tłįchǫ will not be a separate territory, the extent of its powers has invited comparisons both with the birth of Nunavut and with the creation of the NWT government in 1967.

All highways in Canada are numbered except for three in the Northwest Territories, and all in Nunavut ; one highway in Alberta, one highway in Ontario, two highways in Quebec, and Ontario's 7000 Series, are not marked with their highway number, but have been assigned one by the transportation department.

Service to Sanikiluaq, Nunavut is provided in partnership with Air Inuit.

The Inuit of Greenland share a musical tradition with related peoples across the Canadian territories of the Yukon, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, as well as the US state of Alaska and part of eastern Russia.

At the first Nunavut election held February 15, 1999, Okalik was elected to represent Iqaluit West in the first Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, defeating Ben Ell and Matthew Spence, with 51 % of ballots cast.