Yellowknife is the capital of Northwest Territories, but Northwest Territories is not a province. As the name indicates, Northwest Territories is a territory.
1. The name is "Northwest Territories" and, as a name, must be capitalized. 2. Northwest Territories is not a province; Northwest Territories is a territory (despite the plural nature of its name). 3. In this context, neither "capital" nor "province" should be capitalized. 4. The capital of Northwest Territories is Yellowknife.
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Nunavut, Yukon, The Northwest Territories
The Northwest territories joined the confederation in 1870. The Northwest Territories joined because the Hudson Bay Company, which owned those lands, sold them to the Canadian Government. Manitoba was included in those lands.The Northwest territories also joined for the railway Canada offered.
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Northwest Territories is named, appropriately enough, Northwest Territories. It was transferred from Great Britain to Canada on July 15, 1870, the same day that Manitoba became a province. The expansions of Manitoba's boundaries were carved out of Northwest Territories. The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of Northwest Territories. Yukon and Nunavut were also created out of Northwest Teritories.
It made it that the US government had direct control over territories.
Government of new territories.
The Northwest Ordinance was an act that went into effect in 1785 that dealt with governing the western territories. Congress created a committee in 1783 to deal with the western territories and the Northwest Ordinance was born out of this.
Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories were transferred from Britain to Canada on July 15, 1870. The Province of Manitoba was created by the Canadian government on the same day.