Nunavut

Dave Wilton, Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Nunavut is the newest Canadian territory. It was created in 1999 out of the Northwest Territories. The name means “our land” in Inuktitut.1

1Alan Rayburn, Dictionary of Canadian Place Names (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 280.

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