Northern Canada

The North — Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. These are Inuit and First Nations homelands inhabited for millennia, only lightly touched by the Klondike gold rush (1896) and later mineral and oil booms run from the south. The land of the midnight sun and the aurora, of Inuktitut, the inukshuk and a mixed subsistence-and-wage economy, it was reshaped by the 1999 creation of Nunavut as an Inuit-governed territory — and a thawing Arctic now makes it the frontier of Canada's sovereignty, resources and Indigenous self-government.

• Existed: 1000 CE – present
• Type: Entity