Historical Timeline of the Northwest Territories

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1700-1799

1700s Northern Métis 1714 Thanadelthur: Advancing the Fur Trade Through Peace 1763 The Royal Proclamation 1770s War and Peace 1783 The North West Company 1789 Sir Alexander Mackenzie

1800-1849

1800 Trading Chiefs 1821 Akaitcho Rescues Sir John Franklin 1838 Baptiste Cadien: Métis Interpreter on Trial

1850-1899

1858 Missionaries Move North 1859 First Schools in the Northwest Territories 1862 Father Émile Petitot 1865 Building the Fort Good Hope Church 1866 Free Traders 1867 Mission Schools: The Beginning of Residential Schooling 1867 Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns)
1871 ‘Emperor’ Firth 1880s A Northern Transportation Revolution 1889 Beaufort Sea Whaling 1890s The Trade in Muskox Robes 1893 Hislop and Nagle Trading Company 1899 Treaty 8

1900-1924

1900 Johnny Berens, Riverboat Pilot 1903 The North West Mounted Police 1905 Christian Klengenberg 1911 McNeills' Reindeer 1915 Patsy Klengenberg 1918 Ryan Brothers Transport 1920 Gus D’Aoust, Barren Land Trapper 1920 The Discovery of Oil 1920 Inuvialuit Schooners 1920 Compulsory Enrolment and Residential Schooling
1921 Treaty 11 1921 Gerry Murphy 1921 Guy Houghton Blanchet, Dominion Land Surveyor 1921 The Trial of Albert LeBeau 1921 Aviation Comes North 1922 The White Fox Fur Trade 1924 Albert Faille 1924 Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System

1925-1949

1926 Ted Nagle and the Pine Point Discovery 1927 John Hornby 1928 William Hoare and the Thelon Game Sanctuary 1928 Influenza Epidemic 1928 A.Y. Jackson and Frederick Banting 1929 Wilfrid Reid ‘Wop’ May 1930s Snyder Expeditions 1930s From Furs to Mines – An Emerging New Economy 1930 Eldorado Mine
1931 The Mad Trapper of Rat River 1932 Mining Towns 1933 Vic Ingraham and Speed II 1934 Cyril John “Yellowknife Johnny” Baker 1934 Northern Transportation Company Limited 1935 Dr. Alfred Jolliffe, Geological Survey of Canada 1935 Reindeer Herding in the Northwest Territories 1938 Yellowknife’s Daughters of the Midnight Sun 1939 Cat Trains Come North 1939 Charles Camsell’s Fort Simpson 1939 John Graham “Jock” McNiven and Negus Mine
1939 Mildred Hall, Yellowknifeʼs 1st School Teacher 1939 Richard Finnie’s Yellowknife 1941 Tjaart “Tom” Doornbos 1941 Outpost Island Mine 1942 CANOL Project, World War II 1942 The Canadian Rangers 1944 Norman W. Byrne and Discovery Mine 1945 Didy Woolgar, War Bride 1946 Operation Muskox 1947 Beaulieu Yellowknife Mine: The Bubble Bursts 1947 Henry Busse, Photographer 1948 Mackenzie Highway, Grimshaw to Hay River

1950-1974

1951 June Helm: Northern Anthropologist 1951 Tex Morton: Hypnotizing Yellowknife 1954 Distant Early Warning Line 1954 Building Inuvik 1954 The Northwest Territories’ Last Execution 1955 A Federal School System and Residential ‘Halls’ 1955 Operation Bulldog III 1957 Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary 1959 First on the Yellowknife Highway 1959 John Denison's Ice Roads
1959 From Dogs to Snowmobiles 1962 Regina v. Sikyea 1965 The Carrothers’ Commission 1965 Everett George Klippert: A Fight for Justice 1966 I, Nuligak: An Inuvialuit Autobiography 1968 Rocher River: The Decline of a Trapping Settlement 1969 Residential Schools: The Beginning of the End
1970 The NWT Centennial 1970 The Modern Fur Trade 1970s The Rise of Aboriginal Political Organizations 1970 The First Arctic Winter Games 1972 Anik A1 1973 The Morrow Decision: The Birth of Land Claims in the North 1974 The Berger Inquiry

1975-1999

1975 The Return to Responsible Government 1978 Cosmos 954 1979 James (Jim) Jerome 1979 Drury Reports: Political Development in the North 1981 The Mooseskin Boat Project 1984 Inuvialuit Land Claim 1987 Pope John Paul II Visits Fort Simpson
1991 Discovery of Diamonds in the NWT 1992 Gwich’in Land Claim 1992 Giant Mine Explosion 1994 Sahtu Land Claim 1999 The Division of the NWT and Nunavut

2000 –

2001 Sarah Simon: “An Intense Kindness of Heart” 2003 Yellowknife Gold Mining: The End of an Era 2005 Tłı̨chǫ Self Government Agreement