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.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.