[Bedford_DJ]

Its still a few minutes before midnight here but I thought I would like to wish Nunavut a Happy 10th Birthday today, April 1, 2009. :5:

On April 1st, 1999 the Nunavut Act came into effect creating the new territory in Canada's North.

http://www.athropolis.com/graphics/nunavut-game-2.gif
Source (http://www.athropolis.com/map-nunavut.htm)

http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/images2005/16mar05/Rideout.jpg
Source (http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/images2005/16mar05/Rideout.jpg)

Just out of curiousity has anybody on this forum ever lived in Nunavut?

[MsMe]

Hard to believe it's 10 already.
The only territory I have visited was Yukon years ago. :)

Sure is a whole different way of life there.

[Rico Rommheim]

Cheers to Nunavut! Never been there but I might!

[The Jabroni]

Nunavut is on my list of places to visit before I die. :)

Happy Birthday Nunavut!!

[MsMe]

Nunavut is on my list of places to visit before I die. :)

Congrats Nunavut!!

I would love to see it too along with a few other places in Canada.
It's very expensive to travel there though.

[Distill3d]

wow...another thing thats turning 10 this year, along with my graduating high school

[Metro-One]

Happy Birthday! I remember in High School all the maps being replaced, hehe.

[Canadian Mind]

wow...another thing thats turning 10 this year, along with my graduating high school

You're old. Go retire already! :yuck:




:P

[Nicko999]

Wow, 10 years already? Happy Birthday Nunavut!:)

[MsMe]

You're old. Go retire already! :yuck:




:P

Respect your elders. :whip:

[Distill3d]

You're old. Go retire already! :yuck:




:P

:haha: :tup:

nah, i've got another 28 years of work left in me...

[Bedford_DJ]

Happy Birthday! I remember in High School all the maps being replaced, hehe.

My school's too cheap to replace the maps :P

They're so cheap they attempted to draw the borders in with markers. Needless to say they aren't correct. :jester:

[MsMe]

My school's too cheap to replace the maps :P

They're so cheap they attempted to draw the borders in with markers. Needless to say they aren't correct. :jester:

Only in Canada eh. :haha:

[niwell]

I've lived in Nunavut for two 4 month periods. At the time I was dating someone who was born in the Arctic.

It's interesting up there and I highly recommend it. I posted photo threads a few years ago but I imagine they're long gone.

[touraccuracy]

^I remember the photo threads.

My school maps still had the USSR and stuff on them well into the 2000s.

[vid]

My school also had maps from a long time ago. They were good in history classes, not so much in geography. It was created while I was in grade 4, so just after learning that we had two territories, we had to learn another one without understanding why. It was kinda confusing.

[MolsonExport]

^I remember the photo threads.

My school maps still had the USSR and stuff on them well into the 2000s.

I recall that my school maps had "The Dominion of Canada" mentioned...although since it was in Quebec, french versions included "Le Provigo de Canada".

[samne]

All the best Nunavut! :tup:

[Jamaican-Phoenix]

I've always wanted to visit Nunavut. I've even met Kenojuak Ashevak, if anyone knows who she is. A family friend by the name of John Houston is also a film maker, and I've seen his movies about the Inuit and the Arctic. I really want to go up there at some point.

[circle33]

Done about 10 weeks time there on various occasions. Whoever coined "nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there" was undoubtedly referring to Nunavut.

[Nicko999]

I recall that my school maps had "The Dominion of Canada" mentioned...although since it was in Quebec, french versions included "Le Provigo de Canada".

:haha:

[Mille Sabords]

I went to Iqaluit a few years before it became a territorial capital. It's a surreal place. I hear it's doubled in size since becoming the capital (from 2,500 people when I visited, to about 5,000 now). The arctic char is spectacular and so is the landscape.

Hell, never mind maps, I was in grade school when the speed limit signs went metric overnight. Now that was a sport, learning a whole new measurement system. I remember speed limit signs with a "5" pasted over the "3", to go from 30 mph to 50 km/h. It fascinated me. Then the following year it was gas pumps changing from gallons to litres. I remember 20.7 cents a litre being the first metric price I ever noticed.

Happy birthday Nunavut! :tup:

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t30/CortinaFan/NunavutToonie.jpg

[You Need A Thneed]

Wow, 10 years already? Happy Birthday Nunavut!:)

Exactly what I was thinking. It's been ten years already? Time Flies.

[mersar]

Exactly what I was thinking. It's been ten years already? Time Flies.

I'd have to wonder if I'm the only one whose reaction was 'its only been 10 years?'

[circle33]

I'd have to wonder if I'm the only one whose reaction was 'its only been 10 years?'

Well, a week in Nunavut feels like about 10 years...

[amaruk]

I spent 2 months in a camp just outside Pelly Bay (Kugaaruk) in the summer of 2005. I spent a lot of my days slogging through the tundra and saw some really neat archaeological sites up there as well. Fantastic scenery and fantastic people, I'd highly recommend a trip up there for anyone (if you can stomach the ridiculous prices for plane tickets). I'll make the journey up there again someday, hopefully sooner rather than later.

[Bedford_DJ]

I hope this link works.

Nunavut ten years later (http://thechronicleherald.ca/includes/video2.php)

It's from the Canadian Press and talks about how Nunavut (and Iqaluit in specific) have progressed over the last ten years.