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Aklavik, the Glossary

Aklavik (Inuvialuktun: Akłarvik) (from the Inuvialuktun meaning barrenground grizzly place) is a hamlet located in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.^[1]

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Aklavik First Nation
Hamlets in the Northwest Territories
Inuit in the Northwest Territories
Inuvialuit communities
Populated places in Arctic Canada
Road-inaccessible communities of the Northwest Territories

Abe Okpik

Abraham "Abe" Okpik, CM (12 January 1928 – 10 July 1997) was an Inuit community leader in Canada.

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Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values.

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Aklavik First Nation

The Aklavik First Nation is a Gwich'in First Nations band government in the Northwest Territories.

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Aklavik Water Aerodrome

Aklavik Water Aerodrome is located adjacent to Aklavik, Northwest Territories, Canada on the Peel Channel of the Mackenzie River delta.

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Aklavik/Freddie Carmichael Airport

Aklavik/Freddie Carmichael Airport is located adjacent to Aklavik, Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Albert Johnson (criminal)

Albert Johnson (– February 17, 1932), also known as the Mad Trapper of Rat River, was a fugitive whose actions stemming from a trapping dispute eventually sparked a huge manhunt in the Northwest Territories and Yukon in Northern Canada.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Area code 867

Area code 867 is the area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the three Canadian territories, all of which are in Northern Canada.

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Athabaskan languages

Athabaskan (also spelled Athabascan, Athapaskan or Athapascan, and also known as Dene) is a large family of Indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean).

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Aurora College

Aurora College, formerly Arctic College, is a college located in the Northwest Territories, Canada with campuses in Inuvik, Fort Smith and Yellowknife.

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Canada Post

Canada Post Corporation (Société canadienne des postes), trading as Canada Post (Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Census geographic units of Canada

The census geographic units of Canada are the census subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada to conduct the country's quinquennial census.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.

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Clinic

A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a health facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients.

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Commissioner of the Northwest Territories

The commissioner of the Northwest Territories (Commissaire des Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is the Government of Canada's representative in the Northwest Territories.

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Crime statistics

Crime statistics refer to systematic, quantitative results about crime, as opposed to crime news or anecdotes.

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Danish Meteorological Institute

The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI; Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut) is the official Danish meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities.

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Dene

The Dene people are an indigenous group of First Nations who inhabit the northern boreal and Arctic regions of Canada.

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Disc number

Disc numbers, or ujamiit or ujamik in the Inuit language, were used by the Government of Canada in lieu of surnames for Inuit and were similar to dog tags.

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Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Aklavik and Edmonton are Hudson's Bay Company trading posts.

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Electoral district

An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, electorate, or (election) precinct, is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislature.

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; Environnement et Changement climatique Canada)Environment and Climate Change Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of the Environment.

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First Nations in Canada

First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.

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Frank Carmichael

Frank Carmichael (born c. 1887) was a trapper and a territorial level politician in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Frederick Blake Jr.

Frederick Blake Jr. is a First Nations Canadian politician, who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in the 2011 election.

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General store

A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise.

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Glenna Hansen

Glenna F. Hansen (born August 10, 1956) is an Inuvialuk Canadian politician.

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada.

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Grizzly bear

The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America.

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Gwichʼin

The Gwichʼin (or Kutchin or Loucheux) are an Athabaskan-speaking First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native people.

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Gwichʼin language

The Gwichʼin language (Dinju Zhuh Kʼyuu) belongs to the Athabaskan language family and is spoken by the Gwich'in First Nation (Canada) / Alaska Native People (United States).

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Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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Iñupiaq language

Iñupiaq or Inupiaq, also known as Iñupiat, Inupiat, Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, as well as a small adjacent part of the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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Iñupiat

The Inupiat (singular: Iñupiaq) are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border.

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Ice road

An ice road or ice bridge is a human-made structure that runs on a frozen water surface (a river, a lake or a sea water expanse).

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Income

Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada (Peuples autochtones au Canada, also known as Aboriginals) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada.

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Inuit

Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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Inuvialuit

The Inuvialuit (sing. Inuvialuk; the real people) or Western Canadian Inuit are Inuit who live in the western Canadian Arctic region. Aklavik and Inuvialuit are Inuit in the Northwest Territories.

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Inuvialuit Settlement Region

The Inuvialuit Settlement Region, abbreviated as ISR (Inuvialuit Nunangit Sannaiqtuaq – INS; Région désignée des Inuvialuit – RDI), located in Canada's western Arctic, was designated in 1984 in the Inuvialuit Final Agreement by the Government of Canada for the Inuvialuit people.

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Inuvialuktun

Inuvialuktun (part of Western Canadian Inuit / Inuktitut / Inuktut / Inuktun) comprises several Inuit language varieties spoken in the northern Northwest Territories by Canadian Inuit who call themselves Inuvialuit.

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Inuvik

Inuvik (place of man) is the only town in the Inuvik Region, and the third largest community in Canada's Northwest Territories. Aklavik and Inuvik are Inuit in the Northwest Territories, Inuvialuit communities and Populated places in Arctic Canada.

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Inuvik Region

The Inuvik Region or Beaufort Delta Region is one of five administrative regions in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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Inuvik Twin Lakes

Inuvik Twin Lakes is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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John Hagen

John Hagen (born April 7, 1956) is a Canadian surgeon who specializes in laparoscopic surgery and bariatrics.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly, or Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories (with Northwest hyphenated as North-West until 1906), is the legislature and the seat of government of Northwest Territories in Canada.

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List of municipalities in the Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories is the most populous of Canada's three territories with 41,070 residents as of 2021 and is the second-largest territory in land area at.

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List of postal codes of Canada: X

This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is X. Postal codes beginning with X are located within the Canadian territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

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List of regions of the Northwest Territories

The Canadian territory of the Northwest Territories is subdivided into administrative regions in different ways for various purposes.

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Mackenzie Delta (electoral district)

Mackenzie Delta is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Mackenzie River

The Mackenzie River (French: Fleuve (de) Mackenzie; Slavey: Deh-Cho, literally big river; Inuvialuktun: Kuukpak, literally great river) is a river in the Canadian boreal forest. It forms, along with the Slave, Peace, and Finlay, the longest river system in Canada, and includes the second largest drainage basin of any North American river after the Mississippi.

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Mackenzie West

Mackenzie West is a former territorial electoral district, that elected Members to the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly in Canada.

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Manhunt (law enforcement)

In law enforcement, a manhunt is an extensive and thorough search for a wanted and dangerous fugitive involving the use of police units, technology, and help from the public.

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Métis

The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.

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Mountain Time Zone

The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time (UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time (UTC−06:00).

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Nellie Cournoyea

Nellie Cournoyea (born March 4, 1940 in Aklavik, Northwest Territories) is a Canadian politician, who served as the sixth premier of the Northwest Territories from 1991 to 1995.

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Northern Canada

Northern Canada (Nord du Canada), colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada, variously defined by geography and politics.

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System

The Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System was a radio service spanning the Northwest Territories and the Yukon, in existence from 1923 until 1959.

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Northwestel

Northwestel Inc. (stylized as NorthwesTel) is a Canadian telecommunications company that is the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) and long-distance carrier in the territories of Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and part of Northern British Columbia.

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Nunakput

Nunakput is a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Nunamiut

The Nunamiut or Nunatamiut (Nunataaġmiut,, "People of the Land") are semi-nomadic inland Iñupiat located in the northern and northwestern Alaskan interior, mostly around Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska.

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Nursing

Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence".

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Postal codes in Canada

A Canadian postal code (code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada.

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Premier of the Northwest Territories

The premier of the Northwest Territories is the first minister and head of government for the Canadian territory of the Northwest Territories.

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Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre

The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (PWNHC) (Centre du patrimoine septentrional Prince-de-Galles in French) is the Government of the Northwest Territories' museum and archives.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Region 1, Northwest Territories

Region 1 is the name of a Statistics Canada census division, one of six in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Rick Rivet

Rick Rivet (born 1949 in Aklavik, Northwest Territories) is a Sahtu–Métis painter living in Canada.

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Robert C. McLeod (Northwest Territories politician)

Robert C. McLeod (born March 3, 1960, in Aklavik, Northwest Territories, Canada) is a former Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Inuvik Twin Lakes in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 2004 to 2019.

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Royal Canadian Corps of Signals

The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (RCCS or RC Sigs; Corps des transmissions royal du Canada, CTRC) is a component within the Canadian Armed Forces' Communications and Electronics Branch, consisting of all members of that personnel branch who wear army uniform.

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; Gendarmerie royale du Canada; GRC) is the national police service of Canada.

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Royal Canadian Navy

The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN; Marine royale canadienne, MRC) is the naval force of Canada.

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Sahtu

The Sahtú or North Slavey (historically called Hare or Hareskin Indians) are a Dene First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living in the vicinity of Great Bear Lake (Sahtú, the source of their name), Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Seaplane

A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.

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Search warrant

A search warrant is a court order that a magistrate or judge issues to authorize law enforcement officers to conduct a search of a person, location, or vehicle for evidence of a crime and to confiscate any evidence they find.

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Siglit

The Sallirmiut (formerly Siglit) are an Inuit group residing in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.

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Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (StatCan; Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.

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Stream bed

A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river (bathymetry) and is confined within a channel, or the banks (bank (geography) of the waterway.

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Subarctic climate

The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a continental climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers.

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Telephone exchange

A telephone exchange, also known as a telephone switch or central office, is a crucial component in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or large enterprise telecommunications systems.

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The North West Company

The North West Company Inc. is a multinational Canadian grocery and retail company which operates stores in Canada's western provinces and northern territories; the US states of Alaska and Hawaii; and several other countries and US territories in Oceania and the Caribbean.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aklavik

Also known as Aklavik, NWT, Aklavik, Northwest Territories, Akłarvik, Akłarvik, Northwest Territories.

Aklavik, the Glossary

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See also

Aklavik First Nation

Hamlets in the Northwest Territories

Inuit in the Northwest Territories

Inuvialuit communities

Populated places in Arctic Canada

Road-inaccessible communities of the Northwest Territories

References