A 1982 plebiscite on division passed with a 57 per cent majority across the North. And in 1992, about 85 per cent of Inuit who voted approved the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement, which promised to create Nunavut in exchange for their giving up aboriginal rights to traditional lands. About 25,000 people, roughly 85 per cent of them Inuit. Nunavut has a birth rate more than twice the Canadian average, and roughly 9,500 of its people are under the age of 15. Northern leaders say it will be a generation before Nunavut is self-sufficient.
Northern winters are nine months long.
April temperatures start to rise above freezing. We welcome your feedback. All rights reserved.