Nunavut

Canada's Map is changing

At 12:01 on April 1st 1999, after an interfaith church service, a huge fireworks display marked the official formation of Nunavut-Canada's 3rd Territory. For the first time since Newfoundland and Labrador joined confederation in 1949, the map of Canada has been redrawn. Stretching north
of the 60th parallel in a vast pie-shaped wedge from the manitoba border to the tip of Ellesmere Island-almost to the geographic North Pole-and including Islands in Ungava Bay, Hudson Bay and James bay, Nunavut is almost one quarter the size of Canada.

Some interesting facts about the territory.

• It is larger than any other province or territory.

• Nunavut takes in two thirds of Canada's coast-line, and covers three time zones.

• Baker lake in southern Nunavut is the geographic centre of Canada. For this reason, the site is known as the belly button of Canada.

• Because so few roads exist in nunavut, residents of the territory travel by air plane five times more often than most other canadians.

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