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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1999, Aug. 20 | |
| Premier Bouchard publicly stated that his PQ would pursue a third Quebec secession vote before Nov. 2003. | 1 |
| April 1 | |
| Canada officially created a new autonomous territory called Nunavut in part of its arctic and subarctic region. The territory was to be governed solely by the Inuit tribe, who comprised more than 85 percent of the 25,000 inhabitants that occupied this sparsely populated 772,000 sq. mi. of land. The creation of Nunavut was the first Canadian territorial change since 1949 and the product of more than 30 years of land-claims negotiations and Inuit activism. | 2 |
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| A Quebec court judge overturned several parts of a law that stated that French must be the predominant language on government and road signs in the region. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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