Northwest Territories

This area includes the only diamond mines in Canada. Mathematics is commonly described as the "Science of Pattern.". Another land claims agreement with the Dogrib nation created a region within the NWT called Tli Cho, between Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes, which will give the Dogrib their own legislative bodies, taxes, resource royalties, and other affairs, though the NWT will still maintain control over such areas as health and education. Dialogues, June 10, 1943. Land claims in the NWT culminated with the creation of the Inuit homeland of Nunavut, the result of the largest land claim in Canadian history. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), English philosopher and mathematician. Another issue is historic racial tension based on the bloody history between the Dene and the Inuit, who nevertheless have taken recent steps towards reconciliation. Critical Path, 1981.

Their cancer rates skyrocketed due to lack of safety procedures that were available to their white colleagues. R.Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), U.S.American philosopher and inventor. Aboriginal issues in the NWT include the fate of the Dene who, in the 1940s, were employed to carry radioactive uranium ore from the mines on Great Bear Lake. the numbers 0-9 (except 8) will repeat forever — 1/81 is a recurring decimal. The member of Parliament for the Western Arctic, the riding that comprises Northwest Territories, is Dennis Bevington. For example, 1 divided by 81 will result in the answer 0.012345679.. The Premier of Northwest Territories is Joe Handley. Recurring decimals will repeat a sequence of digits an infinite number of times.

The legislature then began electing a cabinet and Government Leader later known as the Premier. Patterns are also common in other areas of mathematics. The Commissioner had full governmental powers until 1980 when the territories were given greater self government. Lindenmayer systems for the description of tree shapes). The head of state for the territories is a Commissioner appointed by the federal government. While the outer appearance of self-similar patterns can be quite complex, the rules needed to describe or produce their formation can be extremely simple (e.g. The territory's most recent general election was on November 24, 2003. (see fractal geometry).

Seven MLAs are also chosen as cabinet ministers, with the remainder forming the opposition. Even though self-similarity in nature is only approximate and stochastic, integral measures describing fractal properties can also be applied to natural "fractals" like coastal lines, tree shapes, etc. After each general election, the new parliament elects a premier and speaker by secret ballot. Naturally occurring patterns obey certain principles also found in fractals, for example self-similarity. This group is composed of one member elected from each of the nineteen constituencies. Fractals are mathematical patterns. It is a consensus government called the Legislative Assembly. There is certainly a recognizable pattern/cycle there.

Unlike provincial governments, the Government of Northwest Territories does not have political parties, except for the period between 1898 and 1905. The planets have been following their (very predictable) elliptical orbits for billions and billions of years. Unlike lieutenant-governors, the commissioner is not a formal representative of the Queen of Canada. The planets of our solar system are caught in an incredibly ancient pattern by the gravity of the Sun. Since 1985 the Commissioner no longer chairs meetings of the Executive Council (or cabinet) and the federal government has instructed commissioners to behave like a provincial lieutenant-governor. In addition to static patterns, there may be patterns of movement such as oscillation. The position used to be more administrative and governmental but with the devolution of more and more powers to the elected assembly since 1967 the position has become symbolic. Pattern recognition is studied in many fields, including psychology, ethology, and computer science.

The Commissioner of NWT is the chief executive and is appointed by the federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. For example, in English, sentences often follow the "N-VP" (noun - verb phrase) pattern, but some knowledge of the English language is required to detect the pattern. [3] Devolution of powers to the territory was an issue in the 20th general election in 2003, and has been ever since the territory began electing members in 1881. Pattern recognition is more complex when templates are used to generate variants. During his term, Premier Kakfwi pushed to have the federal government accord more rights to the territory, including having a greater share of the returns from the territory's natural resources go to the territory. For example, in aviation, a "holding pattern" is a flight path which can be repeated until the aircraft has been granted clearance for landing. As a territory, Northwest Territories has fewer rights than the provinces do. The simplest patterns are based on repetition/periodicity: several copies of a single template are combined without modification.

Major Territorial Mines. Further examples include the regular tiling of a plane, echoes, and balanced binary branching. However, their exploitation has raised environmental concerns, not least the potential havoc that a spill from tailings ponds would cause to unspoiled wilderness areas such as the Nahanni National Park Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Simple decorative examples are stripes and zigzags. In particular, NWT diamonds are touted as an ethical alternative that allays risks of supporting conflicts by purchasing blood diamonds. Some patterns are named. The territory enjoys vast geological resources including diamonds, gold, and natural gas. Some patterns (for example, many visual patterns) may be directly observable through the senses.

[1] [2] In Inuktitut, Northwest Territories are referred to as ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ (Nunatsiaq), "beautiful land.". The question of how patterns arise naturally is dealt with by the scientific field of pattern formation. This name arguably became more appropriate following division, than it was when the territory extended far into Canada's northeast. The detection of underlying patterns is called pattern recognition. The idea is favoured by former premier Stephen Kakfwi among others, but a poll conducted prior to division showed strong support for retaining the name "Northwest Territories". Pattern matching is the act of checking for the presence of the constituents of a pattern. One proposal is "Denendeh" ("our land" in Dene).
A pattern is a form, template, or model (or, more abstractly, a set of rules) which can be used to make or to generate things or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are generated have enough in common for the underlying pattern to be inferred or discerned, in which case the things are said to exhibit the pattern.

There was some discussion of changing the name of Northwest Territories after the separation of Nunavut, possibly to a term from an Aboriginal language. Design patterns. Finally, on April 1, 1999, the eastern three-fifths of Northwest Territories (including all of Keewatin district and much of Mackenzie and Franklin) became a separate territory called Nunavut. Penrose tilings. Between 1925 and 1999, the Northwest Territories measured 3 439 296 km² – larger than India. Tessellation. In 1912 the Government of Canada dropped the hyphen in North-West Territories name to Northwest Territories. Crystals.

However, in 1925 the boundaries of the NWT were extended all the way to the North Pole on the sector principle, vastly expanding its territory onto the northern ice cap. Performance Art: Crop circles. This left only the districts of Mackenzie, Franklin (which absorbed the remnants of Ungava in 1920), and Keewatin. Impressionism: Pointillism. The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created in 1905, and Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec acquired the last of their modern territories from the NWT in 1912. Modern art: Mondrian, Op Art. Quebec was also extended, in 1898, and Yukon was made a separate territory in the same year to deal with the Klondike Gold Rush, and remove the NWT government from administering the sudden boom of population, economic activity and influx of non-Canadians. Tree branches, ferns, coastal lines, clouds.

In the meantime, Ontario was enlarged northwestward in 1882. Sand dunes, Grand Canyon. See also: Districts of Northwest Territories. Sea shells, Sand Dollars. Keewatin would be returned to NWT in 1905. In 1882 and again in 1896, the remaining portion was divided into the following districts (corresponding to the following modern-day areas):.

In 1876, the District of Keewatin, at the centre of the territory, was separated from it. In 1882 Regina in the then-District of Assiniboia became the territorial capital; after Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in 1905 Regina became the provincial capital of the new province of Saskatchewan. By the time British Columbia joined confederation in 1871, it had already been granted the portion of the North-Western Territory south of 60 degrees north and west of 120 degrees west. The province of Manitoba was created in 1870, a tiny square around Winnipeg, and then enlarged in 1881 to a square region composing the modern province's south.

After the transfer, the territories were gradually whittled away. The name of the territory is traced to North-Western Territory, a region named for the geographical location relative to Rupert's Land. It also excluded the Arctic Islands except the southern half of Baffin Island; these remained under direct British rule until 1880. 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.

The territory was created in 1870, when the Hudson's Bay Company transferred Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory to the government of Canada – forming the Northwest Territories. They decided that if French was to be an official language, then so must the other languages in the territories. The executive council appointed a special committee of MLAs to study the matter. Some native members walked out of the assembly, protesting that they would not be permitted to speak their own language.

In the early 1980s, the government of Northwest Territories was again under pressure by the federal government to reintroduce French as an official language. After some conflict with Ottawa and a decisive vote on January 19, 1892, the issue was put to rest as an English-only territory. The members voted on more than one occasion to nullify and make English the only language used in the assembly. Governor Joseph Royal.

French was made an official language in 1877 by the appointed government, after lengthy and bitter debate resulting from a speech from the throne in 1888 by Lt. Citizens of the NWT have a right to use any of the above languages:. The territory's Official Languages Act recognizes eight official languages, more than any other political division in Canada:. .

The highest point is Mount Nirvana near the border with Yukon at elevation 2773 m (9098 ft). In the Arctic Archipelago, the Northwest Territories includes Banks Island, Parry Peninsula, Prince Patrick Island, and parts of Victoria Island and Melville Island. 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. Its capital has been Yellowknife since 1967; see also List of Northwest Territories capitals and List of communities in Northwest Territories.

It has an area of 1,171,918 square kilometres and a population of 42,944 as of January 1, 2005. Located in northern Canada, it is east of Yukon, west and south of Nunavut (Canada's two other territories), and north of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. The Northwest Territories (NWT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory of Canada. Colomac Mine - 1990-1992, 1994-1997 (gold).

Salmita Mine - 1983-1987 (gold). Tundra Mine - 1964-1968 (gold). Terra Mine - 1969-1985 (silver and copper). Rayrock Mine - 1957-1959 (uranium).

Cantung Mine - 1962-1986, 2002-2003, 2005-current (tungsten). Pine Point Mine - 1964-1988 (lead and zinc). Diavik Diamond Mine - 2003-current (diamonds). Ekati Diamond Mine - 1998-current (diamonds).

Echo Bay Mine - 1964-1975 (silver and copper). Eldorado Mine - 1933-1940, 1942-1960, 1976-1982 (radium, uranium, silver, copper). Camlaren Mine - 1962-1963, 1980-1981 (gold). Discovery Mine - 1950-1969 (gold).

Thompson-Lundmark Mine - 1941-1943, 1947-1949 (gold). Negus Mine - 1939-1952 (gold). Ptarmigan and Tom Mine - 1941-1942, 1986-1997 (gold). Giant Mine - 1948-2004 (gold).

Con Mine - 1938-2003 (gold). Yukon (modern Yukon Territory). Ungava (modern-day northern Quebec and inland Labrador, as well as an offshore area in Hudson Bay);. Saskatchewan (central Saskatchewan);.

Mackenzie (mainland NWT and western Nunavut);. Franklin (the Arctic islands and Boothia and Melville Peninsulas);. Athabaska (northern Alberta and Saskatchewan);. Assiniboia (southern Saskatchewan);.

Alberta (southern Alberta);. NWT Literacy Council: Languages of the Land. Language Commissioner of Northwest Territories. Justifying the end of Official Billingualism in Northwest Territories.

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