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unusual facts about Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories



Aaron Doering

These expeditions have taken him across many regions of the circumpolar Arctic, including the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada; Fennoscandia; Greenland; Chukotka in Russia; and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, USA.

Barrie Chivers

Chivers has been admitted to the law society in Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Betula neoalaskana

Its range covers most of interior Alaska, and extends from the southern Brooks Range to the Chugach Range in Alaska, including the Turnagain Arm and northern half of the Kenai Peninsula, easterward from Norton Sound into western Ontario, and north to Northwest Territories and southern Nunavut.

Boreal chorus frog

The boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata) is a species of chorus frog native to Canada from the west of Lake Superior to western Alberta and north to the Northwest Territories.

Charles E. Fipke

Charles Edgar (Chuck) Fipke (born 1946) is a prospector who discovered the existence of diamonds around Lac de Gras in Canada's Northwest Territories.

Deer Creek Public Schools

Following a pattern set during the settling of the Northwest Territories in 1787, the Organic Act dedicated section No. 16 for the support of public schools.

Dustin Milligan

Milligan was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the son of Jean Wallace, a former Yellowknife city councillor, and Brian Milligan.

Echo Bay Mines

The Echo Bay Mines Limited company was organized in 1964 to develop a silver deposit at Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, which became known as the Echo Bay Mine.

Ed Lucero

He is known for making "first descents", including the former record 105 foot (32 M) Alexandra Falls in Canada's Northwest Territories, Guadelupe Falls in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, and Smith Falls in Idaho.

Harry Camsell K-3 School

Harry Camsell K-3 School is a school located in Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada providing public education from kindergarten to grade 3.

Inuvialuk language

Inuvialuktun is spoken by the Inuit of the Mackenzie River delta in the Northwest Territories, Banks Island, part of Victoria Island and the Arctic Ocean coast of the Northwest Territories – the lands of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.

Keith Peterson

Peterson attended F.H. Collins Secondary school in Whitehorse and graduated from Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Michael Gilday

Michael Gilday (born January 5, 1987) is a Canadian short track speed skater from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Mid-Continental Canadian forests

This ecoregion extends from south of the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories through most of northeastern Alberta, central Saskatchewan and parts of west-central Manitoba and consists of three main areas: the Slave River basin in northeastern Alberta, the lowlands of the northern Manitoba plain, and the uplands south of the Canadian Shield from north-central Alberta to southwestern Manitoba.

Mike Botha

Mike Botha is a master diamond cutter, with close to four decades in the profession, his training and subsequent career began in South Africa and has led him to Mauritius, Russia and Canada – from Vancouver to the Northwest Territories to Saskatchewan.

Nahani

Nahani (Nahane, Nahanni) is an Athapaskan word used to designate native groups located in British Columbia, Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territories between the upper Liard River and the 64th parallel north latitude.

Nuclear industry in Canada

Originally owned by the gold prospector Gilbert Labine, Eldorado began to prospect for pitchblende ore in 1929 and set up the Port Radium mine in the Northwest Territories four years later.

Oldest dated rocks

The Acasta Gneiss in the Canadian Shield in the Northwest Territories, Canada is composed of the Archaean igneous and gneissic cores of ancient mountain chains that have been exposed in a glacial peneplain.

Peter Baker

Peter Baker (Canadian politician), former member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories

Princess Alexandra Middle School

Princess Alexandra School is a school located in Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada providing public education for students in grades 4 through 7.

Ross's Goose

This species is named in honor of Bernard R. Ross, a Hudson's Bay Company factor at Fort Resolution in Canada's Northwest Territories.

Salix pulchra

It is native to northern North America, where it occurs in Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.

Scaly dragonfish

On the other side of the Atlantic it is found from the Northwest Territories of Canada to Argentina.

Scopula frigidaria

It is found from Fennoscandia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and in northern North America, where it occurs across the boreal forest region, from Alaska across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to Newfoundland, and in the mountains south to southern Wisconsin, Alberta and British Columbia.

South Slave Divisional Education Council

Specifically, it is responsible for schools in the communities of Fort Resolution, Fort Smith, K'atl'odeche First Nation, Hay River, and Lutselk'e.

Taamusi Qumaq

After spending some time to the establishment of Rankin Inlet in the Northwest Territories, he returned to Puvirnituq in 1960 and founded its first village council and acted as its chair from 1962 to 1968.

The Lesser Blessed

Written and directed by Anita Doron based on the novel of the same name by Richard Van Camp, the film stars Joel Evans as Larry Sole, a young Tłı̨chǫ teenager living in the Northwest Territories.

William Lafferty

William "Bill" Lafferty (born: 1931 - died: 2003) was a former politician, Canadian Forces officer and news paper columnist from Northwest Territories, Canada.


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