Territories of Canada FLOWER: Purple Saxifrage BIRD: Rock Ptarmigan ANIMAL: Canadian Inuit Dog NORTHWEST TERRITORIES (NT) TERRITOIRES DU NORD-OUEST JOINED CANADA: 1870 CAPITAL: Yellowknife POPULATION: 41,786† SIZE: Second-largest territory (1,346,106 km2) CANADA IS COOL! In winter, the rivers and lakes of the Northwest Territories have ice up to a metre thick and can be used as roads. The world’s longest ice road is in the Northwest Territories. It is more than 568 kilometres long! FLOWER: Mountain Avens BIRD: Gyrfalcon TREE: Tamarack Larch MINERAL: Gold YUKON (YT) YUKON JOINED CANADA: 1898 CAPITAL: Whitehorse POPULATION: 35,874† SIZE: Smallest territory (482,443 km2) CANADA IS COOL! The world’s smallest desert, the Carcross Desert, is in Yukon. It is less than 260 hectares. NUNAVUT (NU) NUNAVUT MOTTO: Nunavut sanginivut (in Inuktitut) Nunavut, our strength JOINED CANADA: 1999 CAPITAL: Iqaluit POPULATION: 35,944† SIZE: Largest territory (2,093,190 km2) CANADA IS COOL! An inuksuk, like the red one on the Nunavut flag, is a stone marker used for communication between people. It is traditionally used to mark sacred places and provide directions for land travellers. FLOWER: Fireweed BIRD: Common Raven TREE: Subalpine Fir MINERAL: Lazulite †Population source: www.statcan.gc.ca (Census 2016) RESOURCE PAGES R–16
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