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Canada's

Northwest Territories



The Canadian Museum of Civilization invitesyou to retrace the footsteps of some of its archaeologists as they uncoverednew chapters in the long and fascinating history of the Northwest Territories.Learn about a vast untouched part of our world, about its people and theirhistory.

Canada's Northwest Territories sit at the topof the North American continent. People have lived there for thousands of years. This vast area is dotted with but a few small communities. Theland is still unspoiled. Its immense beauty lies in its vastness and itsharshness.

Between1985 and 1994, the Canadian Museum of Civilization carried out an archaeologicalresearch programme (NOGAP) in the northwestern part (in the blackcircle) of the continental N.W.T. in order to find out more about the historyof this region.

The Museum now opens its files and lets you followthe progress of its archaeologists as they returned from the field andwrote their reports. You can access these documents as well as the multitudeof images and information they brought back.

You can also follow the work at certain sites whichwere revisited over the years and see how the archaeologists changed theirthinking about them based on new discoveries.

And what sense did they finally make of these discoveries?Well, a number of articles bring the field data together and offer interpretationswhich both enlighten and challenge.

Now that you have access to their information, canyou come up with different interpretations?



Lunchtime during work at HyndmanLake, N.W.T. in 1990



This page mirrors a component of the Canadian Museum of Civilization'sVirtual Museum with theaddition of technical and scientific sections. You can go to the CMC VirtualMuseum by clicking on the Museum logo.

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Launched: July 1, 1996
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