Why a Booktrail?
An alphabetical journey that showcases the riches of the territories.
T is for Territories
What you need to know before your trail
Storyteller Michael Kusugak gives an A-Z tour of Canada’s three territories, the northern region of the country that is a giant in size, history, and culture. Young readers can kick up their heels at the Arctic Winter Games with sports such as the one-foot high-kick, listen to world-renowned storytellers at Whitehorse’s International Storytelling Festival, or experience Wood Buffalo National Park where sometimes visitors have to stop and wait for wildlife to get out of the way.
Travel Guide
Nunavut and North West Territories
North West Territories – Nunavut
A is for April
April 1st 1999
“Imagine a territory so vast it pokes into Ontario and Quebec to the south. Then it goes north, all the way to the North Pole, Imagine a territory that needs THREE time zones: Mountain, Central and Eastern Time. Imagine a territory that has the second largest bay in the world, Hudson Bay. What you imagine is Nunavut – our land in Inuktitut, the language of the Inunit.
The Thule – ancestors of present-day Inunit – inhabited the territory 4, 0000 years ago. The first European Contact was made by the Norse in the eleventh century. Martin Frobisher arrived in 1576, the first Englishman to set foot in arctic Canada.
On May 25, 1993, the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement act was signed, with its official passage on July 9. On April 1, 1999, the inhabitants celebrated the ratification of the Agreement. And Nunavut became a territory.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: T is for Territories
Destination : Nunavut, North West Territories Author/Guide: Michael Kusugak Departure Time: 2000s
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