A Collaborative Project between
the Grade 6 students of
Erickson School in Erickson, BC, and
the Grade 4/5 students of École Allain-St Cyr in Yellowknife, NWT
This page is the result of a Grade 6 Internet Scavenger Hunt
BRITISH
COLUMBIA
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
CAPITAL
Victoria
OFFICIAL EMBLEMS
FLAG
Adopted in 1960,
the flag duplicates the design of the shield of arms of the province.
Adopted in 1969,
the blue panels represent the NWT lakes and waters. The white centre
panel symbolizes the ice and snow of the North.
FLOWER
Dogwood
Mountain
Avens
BIRD
Stellar's Jay
Gyrfalcon
TREE
Western Red Cedar
Tamarack
(up until 1999 it was the Jack Pine)
GEMSTONE
Jade
Diamond
MINERAL
n/a
Gold
FISH
n/a
Arctic
Grayling
COAT
OF ARMS
The Union Jack symbolizes our colonial origins.
The wavy blue and silver bars and the setting sun represents our
geographic location between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky
Mountains.
The supporters, the stag and the ram, represent the former colonies
of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
The crowned lion wears a collar of dogwood flowers.
Traditional heraldic elements of a wreath and mantling are in
Canada's colours.
The fox represents fur
Gold bricks represent
mineral wealth
The blue line represents
the Machenzie River
White represents the
snow
The color red represents
the tundra (north)
TARTAN
blue for the ocean
white
for the dogwood
green for the forests
red for the maple leaf
gold for the crown and sun on the shield and flag
adopted in 1974.
the white of the snow
the
green of the forest
the yellow of the birches in fall
the red of the tundra
the blue of the lakes, rivers and oceans
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
There are 2 official languages
(French and English)
There are 11 official
languages in the NT (2 of these are English and French...all
the others are native).
