1979 Northwest Territories General Election
The 1979 Northwest Territories general election was held on October 1, 1979. Twenty-two members were elected to the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly. In 1980, George Braden was named "Government Leader", the first democratic leader of the Northwest Territories since Frederick Haultain in 1905 and the first of its modern boundaries. In 1994, he was retroactively given the title Premier of the Northwest Territories. Election summary Members of the Legislative Assembly elected For complete electoral history, see individual districts References {{Northwest Territories elections Elections in the Northwest Territories Northwest Territories general election Northwest Territories general election General election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

Legislative Assembly Of The Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly, or Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories (with Northwest hyphenated as North-West until 1906), is the legislature and the seat of government of Northwest Territories in Canada. It is a unicameral elected body that creates and amends law in the Northwest Territories. Permanently located in Yellowknife since 1993, the assembly was founded in 1870 and became active in 1872 with the first appointments from the Government of Canada. Until 2014, the assembly was officially defined under federal law as "Legislative Council". However, under Northwest Territories territorial law, it was defined as "Legislative Assembly". The federal name was changed when the Northwest Territories Act was rewritten in 2014. Under different periods of its history it has alternated names. Members of the Legislative Assembly are sworn in by the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories. Early history The Legislative Assembly was first known as the T ...
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Hay River (N
Hay River may refer to: Places * Hay River, Northwest Territories * Hay River, Wisconsin Rivers * Hay River (Wisconsin) * Hay River (Canada), a river in Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada * Hay River, Northern Territory, Australia * Hay River (Western Australia) The Hay River is a river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The traditional owners of the area are the Noongar people, who know the river as Genulup. The river was given its English name in December 1829 by naval ship's surgeo ...

Richard Nerysoo
Richard Nerysoo (born 1953) is a territorial level politician from the Northwest Territories, Canada. He was a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 to 1995 and served as the third premier of the Northwest Territories and Speaker. Political career Nerysoo served a long career as Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories (MLA). He was first elected in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election in the Mackenzie Delta electoral district, becoming the youngest MLA in the history of the Northwest Territories. Nerysoo was re-elected in the 1983 Northwest Territories general election. He was elected by the Legislative Assembly to serve as the third Premier of the Northwest Territories. His election as Premier made him the first Aboriginal in Canada to serve in the role, as well as the youngest Premier in Canadian history and the first native-born Premier of the Northwest Territories. He was re-elected in the 1987 Northwest Territories gen ...
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Mackenzie Delta (electoral District)
Mackenzie Delta may refer to: * The delta of the Mackenzie River, where it empties into the Arctic Ocean, in the Northwest Territories, Canada * Mackenzie Delta (electoral district) Mackenzie Delta may refer to: * The delta of the Mackenzie River, where it empties into the Arctic Ocean, in the Northwest Territories, Canada * Mackenzie Delta (electoral district), a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assemb ...

Tagak Curley
Tagak Curley (born 1944) is an Inuit leader, politician and businessman from Nunavut. As a prominent figure in the negotiations that led to the creation of Nunavut, Tagak is considered a living father of confederation in Canada. He was born in a hunting camp at Coral Harbour, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). From 1966 to 1970, he worked as a development officer with the federal Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Based on his experiences, Curley became politically active and took on leadership roles at the local level to promote better living conditions for Inuit in local communities across Nunavut. From 1970-71, Curley served as the Repulse Bay settlement manager. He also acted as editor of the Keewatin Echo, the first English-Inuktitut newspaper in Canada. He was a founding member and the first president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (Inuit Tapirisat of Canada) in 1971. ITK was formed to represent Nunavut Inuit by their own organization. While preside ...
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Keewatin South
Keewatin is a Cree word meaning "Blizzard of the North" and can refer to the following: __NOTOC__ Places Canada * Keewatin, Ontario, a town amalgamated with the towns of Kenora and Jaffray Melick to form Kenora * District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories * Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories, partially overlapped the District of Keewatin, but was a distinct entity * Keewatin Region, Nunavut, an alternative name for Kivalliq Region United States * Keewatin, Minnesota, a city * Keewaydin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood in Minneapolis Other uses * Diocese of Keewatin, a former Anglican Church of Canada diocese * Keewatin Air, an airline that operates from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada * Keewatin Community College, former name of University College of the North * Keewatin ice sheet, one of the four major ice centers of the Laurentide Ice Sheet * Keewatin Railway The Keewatin Railway Company is a First Nations-owned shortline railroad that operates in northern Manitoba, b ...
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William Noah
William Noah (born 1944, Back River, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut)) is a former territorial level politician and artist. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1982. Noah was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election, winning the Keewatin North electoral district. He resigned before completing the end of his first term in 1982. Noah currently resides in Baker Lake, Nunavut. He ran the constituency office for Baker Lake MLA David Simailak. He currently works as a Community Liaison Officer on the Kiggavik Project for AREVA Resources Canada. In 1998 the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Marion Jackson, Judith Nasby, William Noah co-curated a major exhibition with catalogue both entitled ''Qamanittuaq (Where the River Widens): Drawings by Baker Lake Artists'' which included and a memoir by William Noah and distinguished drawings by Noah, his three siblings Janet Kigusiuq, V ...
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Keewatin North
Keewatin is a Cree word meaning "Blizzard of the North" and can refer to the following: __NOTOC__ Places Canada * Keewatin, Ontario, a town amalgamated with the towns of Kenora and Jaffray Melick to form Kenora * District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories * Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories, partially overlapped the District of Keewatin, but was a distinct entity * Keewatin Region, Nunavut, an alternative name for Kivalliq Region United States * Keewatin, Minnesota, a city * Keewaydin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood in Minneapolis Other uses * Diocese of Keewatin, a former Anglican Church of Canada diocese * Keewatin Air, an airline that operates from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada * Keewatin Community College, former name of University College of the North * Keewatin ice sheet, one of the four major ice centers of the Laurentide Ice Sheet The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a la ...
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Tom Butters (politician)
Thomas H. Butters, (June 1925 – March 2, 2015) was a politician from Northwest Territories, Canada. He had a long career as a Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1970 until 1991. Butters was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1970 Northwest Territories general election. He won the new electoral district of Western Arctic defeating incumbent Duncan Pryde. Due to a significant redistribution of electoral district in 1975, Butters ran for re-election in the 1975 Northwest Territories general election in the new Inuvik electoral district because Western Arctic no longer covered his home in Inuvik. He won re-election in the new riding. Butters was re-elected for a third term in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election. In his third term he was appointed as the Minister of Finance by Premier George Braden in 1981. The posting was significant as Butters became the first elected member to hold the role since Frederick Haultain, who was ...
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Inuvik (electoral District)
Inuvik was a territorial electoral district representing the city of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. It was dissolved for the 1999 territorial election, with two new districts, Inuvik Boot Lake and Inuvik Twin Lakes. Its last sitting Member was Floyd Roland, who now represents Inuvik Boot Lake Inuvik Boot Lake is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Together with Inuvik Twin Lakes, it is one of two electoral districts that represent Inuvik; both were created in 1999 from th .... Former electoral districts of Northwest Territories Inuvik {{Canada-constituency-stub ...
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Moses Appaqaq
Moses Appaqaq Jr. (born April 2, 1946) is a soapstone carver, former retail clerk, and former territorial-level politician from Sanikiluaq, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). Appaqaq ran for a seat in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election, he won the Hudson Bay electoral district and his first term in office. Appaqaq ran for a second term in the 1983 Northwest Territories general election. In that election he defeated six other candidates. Appaqaq was defeated running for a third term in office by Charlie Crow in the 1987 Northwest Territories general election. After politics he became a director on the board of Qikittaluk Corporation. Appaqaq attempted a return to politics running in the Hudson Bay electoral district in the 1999 Nunavut general election. He was defeated by Peter Kattuk Peter Kattuk (2 June 1950 – 20 November 2019) was a Canadian politician from Nunavut. Early life He was born in the Belcher Islands, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) an ...
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Hudson Bay (N
Hudson Bay,; crl, text=ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, translit=Wînipâkw; iu, text=ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ, translit=Kangiqsualuk ilua or iu, text=ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, translit=Tasiujarjuaq; french: baie d'Hudson sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of . It is located north of Ontario, west of Quebec, northeast of Manitoba and southeast of Nunavut, but politically entirely part of Nunavut. It is an inland marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean (or of the Atlantic Ocean, depending on definition). It drains a very large area, about , that includes parts of southeastern Nunavut, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, all of Manitoba, and parts of the U.S. states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. Hudson Bay's southern arm is called James Bay. The Eastern Cree name for Hudson and James Bay is (Southern dialect) or (Northern dialect), meaning muddy or brackish water. Lake Winn ...
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