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Territory of Canada. area 3,426,300 sq
km/1,322,552 sq mi capital Yellowknife
physical extends to the North Pole, to
Hudson's Bay in the east, and in the west to
the edge of the Canadian Shield features
Mackenzie River; lakes: Great Slave, Great
Bear; Miles Canyon products oil, natural gas,
zinc, lead, gold, tungsten, silver population
(1986) 52,000; over 50% native peoples
(Indian, Inuit) history the area was the
northern part of Rupert's Land, bought by the
Canadian government from the Hudson's Bay
Company 1869. An act of 1952 placed the
Northwest Territories under a commissioner
acting in Ottawa under the Ministry of
Northern Affairs and Natural Resources. In
1990 territorial control of over 350,000 sq
km/135,000 sq mi of the Northwest Territories
was given to the Inuit.