1999: Canada: Nunavut Becomes Canada's Third Territory

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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 Inuitthe aboriginal inhabitants of the Arctic. Populated almost entirely by Inuit, the... ...