A new territory north of 60 moved one step closer to creation on this date in 1992. With the polls closed and the votes counted in the area of the Northwest Territories that would comprise Nunavut, almost 79 per cent of voters, the vast, vast majority being Inuit, supported the proposal. A few months later, in Iqaluit, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement between Tunngavik Federation of Nunavut (now Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated), the Government of Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories. This remains the largest land claims agreement between Ottawa and Indigenous Peoples ever signed. Nunavut would come into being, officially, on April 1, 1999.

Source: CBC News November 05, 2022 11:09 UTC