Historical Timeline of the Northwest Territories
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 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
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
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
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