Snake River (Yukon)
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Snake River (Yukon)
The Snake River (Gwich'in: Gyuu Dazhoo Njik) is in the Yukon Territory near the Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ... border. It is the farthest east river in the Peel watershed, a major tributary of the Mackenzie River. The Snake is 300 km (186 mi) in length. The headwaters of the river are in the Werneke Mountains. First Nations The Snake River flows through traditional territories of the Tetlit Gwitchin and the Na-cho Ny’a’k Dun First Nations. See also * List of rivers of Yukon References Rivers of Yukon {{Yukon-river-stub ...
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Yukon Territory
Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as of March 2022. Whitehorse, the territorial capital, is the largest settlement in any of the three territories. Yukon was split from the North-West Territories in 1898 as the Yukon Territory. The federal government's ''Yukon Act'', which received royal assent on March 27, 2002, established Yukon as the territory's official name, though ''Yukon Territory'' is also still popular in usage and Canada Post continues to use the territory's internationally approved postal abbreviation of ''YT''. In 2021, territorial government policy was changed so that “''The'' Yukon” would be recommended for use in official territorial government materials. Though officially bilingual (English and French), the Yukon government also recognizes First Natio ...
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Northwest Territory
The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and formally known as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was formed from unorganized western territory of the United States after the American Revolutionary War. Established in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation through the Northwest Ordinance, it was the nation's first post-colonial organized incorporated territory. At the time of its creation, the territory included all the land west of Pennsylvania, northwest of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River below the Great Lakes, and what later became known as the Boundary Waters. The region was ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Paris of 1783. Throughout the Revolutionary War, the region was part of the British Province of Quebec. It spanned all or large parts of six eventual U.S. states (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the northeastern part of Minnesota). Reduced to present-day Ohio, eastern Michigan and a sliver of sout ...
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List Of Rivers Of Yukon
This is a list of rivers of Yukon. Arctic Ocean watershed * Mackenzie River watershed **Upper Liard River *** Rancheria River ****Little Rancheria River ***Frances River ***Hyland River *** Coal River *** La Biche River *** Beaver River (Liard River tributary) **** Whitefish River *** Kotaneelee River *** Smith River ***South Nahanni River ** Peel River *** Ogilvie River ***Blackstone River ***Hart River *** Wind River *** Bonnet Plume River ***Snake River *Firth River *Malcolm River *Trail River *Babbage River *Blow River * Clarence River Bering Sea watershed *Yukon River **Marsh Lake ***McClintock Creek ***Tagish River ****Tagish Lake ***** Bennett Lake *****Atlin Lake ***** Nares River ****** Little Atlin Lake ****** Partridge River **Teslin River ***Teslin Lake **** Nisutlin River ***** Wolf Rover *** Dän Tàgé *** Morley River **Takhini River ***Kusawa Lake *** Swift River ** Big Salmon River ***Quiet Lake ** Nordenskiold River ** Pelly River ***Hoole River *** Ross River ...
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