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Fort Resolution, the Glossary

Fort Resolution (Denı́nu Kų́ę́ (pronounced "deh-nih-noo-kwenh") "moose island place") is a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.^[1]

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Communities in the South Slave Region
Dene communities
Hamlets in the Northwest Territories
Heritage sites in the Northwest Territories
National Historic Sites in the Northwest Territories

Akaitcho Territory Government

The Akaitcho Territory Government is a First Nations organization representing the Dene people of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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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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Bed and breakfast

Bed and breakfast (typically shortened to B&B or BnB) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast.

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Calgary Herald

The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Camping

Camping is a form of outdoor recreation or outdoor education involving overnight stays with a basic temporary shelter such as a tent.

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Canadian Indian residential school system

The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples.

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Canoeing

Canoeing is an activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle.

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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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Chipewyan language

Chipewyan or Dënesųłinë́ (ethnonym), often simply called Dëne, is the language spoken by the Chipewyan people of northwestern Canada.

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Dave Hancock

David Graeme Hancock (born August 10, 1955) is a Canadian lawyer and was the 15th premier of Alberta in 2014.

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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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Deninu Kųę́ First Nation

The Deninu Kųę́ First Nation is a Dene First Nations band government in the Northwest Territories.

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Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Fort Resolution Airport

Fort Resolution Airport is located adjacent to Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, Canada.

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The Fort Resolution Highway, officially Northwest Territories Highway 6, is a highway following the shore of Great Slave Lake from the Buffalo River Junction (Highway 5) to Fort Resolution in Canada's Northwest Territories.

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Great Slave Lake

Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at, and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area.

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Hamlet (place)

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

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Hay River, Northwest Territories

Hay River (South Slavey: Xátł’odehchee), known as "the Hub of the North", is a town in the Northwest Territories, Canada, located on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, at the mouth of the Hay River. Fort Resolution and Hay River, Northwest Territories are Communities in the South Slave Region.

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Hunting

Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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Ice hockey rink

An ice hockey rink is an ice rink that is specifically designed for ice hockey, a competitive team sport.

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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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Köppen climate classification

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

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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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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Métis

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

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Medical evacuation

Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac or medivac, is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to wounded being evacuated from a battlefield, to injured patients being evacuated from the scene of an accident to receiving medical facilities, or to patients at a rural hospital requiring urgent care at a better-equipped facility using medically equipped air ambulances, helicopters and other means of emergency transport including ground ambulance and maritime transfers.

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Memorial University of Newfoundland

Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN, is a public research university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook, elsewhere in Newfoundland and in Labrador, Saint Pierre, and Harlow, England.

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Michif

Michif (also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is one of the languages of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations (mainly Cree, Nakota, and Ojibwe) and fur trade workers of white ancestry (mainly French).

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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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National Historic Sites of Canada

National Historic Sites of Canada (Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being of national historic significance.

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North American fur trade

The North American fur trade is the (typically) historical commercial trade of furs and other goods in North America, predominantly in the eastern provinces of Canada and the northeastern American colonies (soon-to-be northeastern United States).

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Northern Alberta

Northern Alberta is a geographic region located in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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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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Pine Point Mine

The Pine Point Mine is located on the south shore of Great Slave Lake between Hay River to the west and Fort Resolution to the east, in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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Pine Point, Northwest Territories

Pine Point is an abandoned locality that formerly held town status near the south shore of Great Slave Lake between the towns of Hay River and Fort Resolution in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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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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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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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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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 5, Northwest Territories

Region 5 is the name of a Statistics Canada census division, one of six in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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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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Slave River

The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from the confluence of the Rivière des Rochers and Peace River in northeastern Alberta and runs into Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories.

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South Slave Region

The South Slave Region is one of five administrative regions in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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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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Steve Norn

Steve Norn is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in the 2019 election.

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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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Tłı̨chǫ

The Tłı̨chǫ people, sometimes spelled Tlicho and also known as the Dogrib, are a Dene First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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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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Tipi

A tipi or tepee is a conical lodge tent that is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure, and historically made of animal hides or pelts or, in more recent generations, of canvas stretched on a framework of wooden poles.

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References

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

Also known as Fort Resolution, NT, Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories.

, South Slave Region, Statistics Canada, Steve Norn, Subarctic climate, Tłı̨chǫ, Telephone exchange, The North West Company, Tipi, Trapping, Treaty 8, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh, Yellowknife, 1991 Canadian census, 1996 Canadian census, 2001 Canadian census, 2006 Canadian census, 2011 Canadian census, 2016 Canadian census, 2021 Canadian census.

Fort Resolution, the Glossary

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See also

Communities in the South Slave Region

Dene communities

Hamlets in the Northwest Territories

Heritage sites in the Northwest Territories

National Historic Sites in the Northwest Territories

References