1992 Northwest Territories jurisdictional boundaries plebiscite

1992 Northwest Territories jurisdictional boundaries plebiscite 4 May 1992 NWT Boundary Plebiscites.jpg Map of the 1982 and 1992 plebiscite results Northwest Territories Do you support the boundary for division shown on the map? 8347 7000 124 27852 A plebiscite on the boundary between Northwest Territories and the new territory of Nunavut was held in the Northwest Territories on 4 May 1992.Northwest Territories (Canada), 4 May 1992: Border with Nunavut Direct Democracy de The proposed border was approved by 54% of voters. A second referendum later in the year gave the final approval to the creation of the new territory.Nunavut (Canada), 5 November 1992: Creation of Nunavut Direct Democracy de Background A 1982 referendum had approved the division of the Northwest Territories and the creation of a new territory, later to become Nunavut. The federal government gave a conditional agreement to the plan seven months later.http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/jull/buildnun.htm Building Nunavut: A Story of Inuit SelfGovernment Peter Jull The Northern Review No. 1 (Summer 1988) 59–72 Yukon College February 16, 2009 August 5, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160805210410/http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/jull/buildnun.htm dead In December 1991 the federal government reached an agreement with the Inuit on their land claims, with the "Parker line" (named for former Commissioner John Havelock Parker who worked on establishing the borders) set as the boundary between the existing territory and the new one. The boundary roughly approximates the tree line in Canada.Heidt Daniel https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/108896/9781773850160_chapter11.pdf RECONSIDERING CONFEDERATION: Canada's Founding Debates, 1864–1999 University of Calgary 2018 978-1-77385-016-0 263–264 a new Northwest Territories and Nunavut (“our land” in Inuktitut)—were created when the federal govern-ment redrew the boundaries in Canada’s North, splitting off the central and eastern Canadian Arctic north and east of the tree-line from the rest of the Northwest Territories. Results ChoiceVotes%For8,34754.39No7,00045.61Invalid/blank votes124–Total15,471100Registered voters/turnout27,85255.55Source: Direct Democracy References Category:Referendums in the Northwest Territories Category:Politics of Nunavut Category:History of Nunavut Northwest Territories jurisdictional boundaries plebiscite Northwest Territories jurisdictional boundaries plebiscite Northwest Territories jurisdictional boundaries plebiscite Jurisdictional boundaries plebiscite Northwest Territories jurisdictional boundaries plebiscite Category:Political history of Nunavut