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Northwest Territories Council

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a body responsible for the government of the Northwest Territories (def. 2b), now consisting of twelve members, of whom seven are elected and five appointed.

See: Northwest Territories(def. 2b)

Quotations

1962

To eight of the elders of the Eskimo Community of Rankin Inlet, it seemed the Northwest Territories Council was making a big fuss about nothing.

1965

Granting residents of the eastern Arctic the right to vote for their own members of the Northwest Territories Council could mean the start of a language problem for the Parliament of the North.