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Norman Wells, the Glossary

Norman Wells (Slavey language: Tłegǫ́hłı̨ "where there is oil") is a town located in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories, Canada.^[1]

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Communities in the Sahtu Region
Populated places on the Mackenzie River
Road-inaccessible communities of the Northwest Territories
Towns in the Northwest Territories

Alaska

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

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Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)

Sir Alexander Mackenzie (– 12 March 1820) was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America by a European in 1793.

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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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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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Bell Mobility

Bell Mobility Inc. is a Canadian wireless network operator and the division of Bell Canada which offers wireless services across Canada.

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Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC; Banque canadienne impériale de commerce) is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered at CIBC Square in the Financial District of Toronto, Ontario.

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Canadian North

Bradley Air Services, operating as Canadian North, is a wholly Inuit-owned airline headquartered in Kanata, Ontario, Canada.

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Canol Heritage Trail

The Canol Heritage Trail is a trail running from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, through the Mackenzie Mountains, to the Yukon border.

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Canol Project

The Canol Project was constructed during World War II to ensure a supply of oil for the defense of Alaska and the North American west coast.

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Canol Road

The Canol Road was part of the Canol Project and was built to construct a pipeline from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, to Whitehorse, Yukon, during World War II.

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CHC Helicopter

CHC Helicopter is a Texas-based helicopter services company.

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A healthcare center, health center, or community health center is one of a network of clinics staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses providing healthcare services to people in a certain area.

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Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC; Relations Couronne-Autochtones et des Affaires du Nord Canada)Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs.

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Discovery Air

Discovery Air (DA), founded in 2004, was a specialized aviation company that operated primarily in Canada.

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Edmonton

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

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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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Ethel Blondin-Andrew

Ethel Dorothy Blondin-Andrew (born 25 March 1951) is a Canadian politician, educator, and public servant.

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First Air

Bradley Air Services Limited, operating as First Air, was an airline headquartered in Kanata, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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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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Floatplane

A floatplane is a type of seaplane with one or more slender floats mounted under the fuselage to provide buoyancy.

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Fort Simpson

Fort Simpson (Slavey language: Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ "place where rivers come together") is a village, the only one in the entire territory, in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Norman Wells and Fort Simpson are Populated places on the Mackenzie River.

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Franklin Mountains (Northwest Territories)

The Franklin Mountains of the Northwest Territories are a range of low peaks that stretch along the east bank of the Mackenzie River from 64 to 66 degrees of latitude.

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Frostbite

Frostbite is a skin injury that occurs when someone is exposed to extremely low temperatures, causing the freezing of the skin or other tissues, commonly affecting the fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks and chin areas.

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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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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. Norman Wells and Hay River, Northwest Territories are towns in the Northwest Territories.

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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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Imperial Oil

Imperial Oil Limited is a Canadian petroleum company.

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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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Inuvik

Inuvik (place of man) is the only town in the Inuvik Region, and the third largest community in Canada's Northwest Territories. Norman Wells and Inuvik are towns in the Northwest Territories.

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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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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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Light crude oil

Light crude oil is liquid petroleum that has a low density and flows freely at room temperature.

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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 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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Marine Transportation Services

Marine Transportation Services (MTS) formerly Northern Transportation Company Limited (NTCL) is a marine transportation company operating primarily in the Mackenzie River watershed of the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta, and the Arctic Ocean using a fleet of diesel tug boats and shallow-draft barges.

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Métis

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

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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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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Norman Wells Airport

Norman Wells Airport is located adjacent to Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Norman Wells Proven Area Agreement

The Norman Wells Proven Area Agreement, signed in 1944 by the federal government of Canada and Imperial Oil Limited, grants Imperial Oil the exclusive right and privilege to drill for, mine, win and extract all of the petroleum and natural gas from this field for three terms of 21 years.

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Norman Wells Water Aerodrome

Norman Wells Water Aerodrome is located south-southeast of Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada on D.O.T. Lake.

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North-Wright Airways

North-Wright Airways or North Wright Air is an airline based in Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada.

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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 (electoral district)

Northwest Territories (Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada.

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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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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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Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils).

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Oil refinery

An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.

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Paulie Chinna

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

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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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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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Richardson Mountains

The Richardson Mountains are a mountain range located west of the mouth of the Mackenzie River in northern Yukon, 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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Sahtu (electoral district)

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

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Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement

The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement, is a comprehensive lands claim agreement between The Crown in the right of Canada and the Dene and Métis of the Sahtu area in the Northwest Territories.

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Sahtu Divisional Education Council

The Sahtu Divisional Education Council is the public school board for the Sahtu Region, in the Northwest Territories.

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Sahtu Region

The Sahtu Region is an administrative region in Canada's Northwest Territories.

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Sealift

Sealift is a term used predominantly in military logistics and refers to the use of cargo ships for the deployment of military assets, such as weaponry, vehicles, military personnel, and supplies.

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Slavey language

Slavey (also Slave, Slavé) is a group of Athabaskan languages and a dialect continuum spoken amongst the Dene peoples of Canada in the Northwest Territories – or central Denendeh – where it also has official status.

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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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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/Norman_Wells

Also known as Norman Well, NWT, Norman Wells, NWT, Norman Wells, Northwest Territories.

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See also

Communities in the Sahtu Region

Populated places on the Mackenzie River

Road-inaccessible communities of the Northwest Territories

Towns in the Northwest Territories

References