Northwest Territories, Canada Genealogy
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Guide to Northwest Territories ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.
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History[edit | edit source]
- Northwest Territories is a province in Canada. Yellowknife is the territorial capital.
- Prior to the arrival of Europeans, a number of First Nations and Inuit occupied the area that became the Northwest Territories.
- Inuit groups include the Caribou, Central, and Copper.
- First Nations groups include the Dane-zaa (Beaver), Chipewyan, Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib), Tahltan (Nahani), Sekani, Slavey, and Yellowknives.
- The present-day territory came under government authority in July 1870, after the Hudson's Bay Company transferred Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory to the British Crown, which subsequently transferred them to the government of Canada, giving it the name the North-West Territories.
- Most of Canada was in the North-West Territories.[1]
- After the 1870 transfer, some of the North-West Territories was whittled away.
- In the meantime, the Province of Ontario was enlarged northwestward in 1882. Quebec was also extended northwards in 1898.
- The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created in 1905, and Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec acquired the last addition to their modern landmass from the NWT in 1912.
- This left only the districts of Mackenzie, Franklin, and Keewatin within what was then given the name Northwest Territories.
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Getting Started[edit | edit source]
Getting Started with Northwest Territories ResearchLinks to articles on getting started with Northwest Territories research.
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Populated Places[edit | edit source]
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FamilySearch Resources[edit | edit source]
Below are FamilySearch resources that can assist you in researching your family.
- Facebook Communities - Facebook groups discussing genealogy research
- Learning Center - Online genealogy courses
- Historical Records - databases and record images on FamilySearch
- Family History Center locator map
- Canadian Headstones — index
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- ↑ This immense region comprised all of today's Canada except British Columbia, early form of Manitoba (a small square area around Winnipeg), early forms of present-day Ontario and Quebec (the coast of the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence River valley and the southern third of modern Quebec), the Maritimes (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick), Newfoundland, the Labrador coast, and the Arctic Islands (except the southern half of Baffin Island).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories
- ↑ "Northwest Territories, in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories, accessed 31 December 2020.
