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1999: Canada: Nunavut Becomes Canada's Third Territory
Festive fireworks lit up the Arctic sky as the new Canadian territory of Nunavut officially joined the Canadian federation on April 1, 1999. Nunavut means “our land” in Inuktitut, which is the language of the Inuit—the aboriginal inhabitants of the Arctic. Populated almost entirely by Inuit, the...
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