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Northwest Territories:
Although much of Canada still has the flavor
of the "last frontier", it's only when you embark on the
mainland push north to the Yukon that you know for certain
you're leaving the mainstream of North American life behind.
In the popular imagination, the north figures as a
perpetually frozen wasteland blasted by ferocious gloomy
winters, inhabited – if at all – by hardened characters
beyond the reach of civilization. In truth, it's a region
where months of summer sunshine offer almost limitless
opportunities for outdoor activities and an incredible
profusion of flora and fauna; a country within a country,
the character of whose settlements has often been forged by
the mingling of white settlers and aboriginal peoples.
The indigenous hunters of the north are as varied as in the
south, but two groups predominate: the Dene, people
of the northern forests who traditionally occupied the
Mackenzie River region from the Albertan border to the
river's delta at the Beaufort Sea; and the Arctic Inuit
(literally "the people"), once known as the Eskimos or "fish
eaters", a Dene term picked up by early European settlers
and now discouraged.
The north is as much a
state of mind as a place. People "north of 60" – the 60th
Parallel – claim the right to be called northerners,
and maintain a kinship with Alaskans, but those north of the
Arctic Circle – the 66th Parallel – look with
light-hearted disdain on these "southerners". All mock the
inhabitants of the northernmost corners of Alberta and such
areas of the so-called Northwest, who, after all, live with
the luxury of being able to get around their backcountry by
road. To any outsider, however, in terms of landscape and
overall spirit the north begins well south of the 60th
Parallel. Accordingly, this section includes not just the
provinces of the "true north" – Yukon and parts of
the western Arctic and Northwest Territories – but
also northern British Columbia, a region more stark
and extreme than BC's southern reaches.
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