Mel Crawford B. 1925) "Northwest Territory"

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  Mel Crawford (Canadian, B. 1925) "Northwest Territory" Signed lower left. Original Mixed Media on Cold Press Illustration Board
  
  Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation.
  
  This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood First Day Cover for the Canada 17c Flags of Canada Northwest Territory stamp issued June 15, 1979.
  
  The Northwest Territories represent more than one third of the land area of Canada. Out of the original Northwest Territories came the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, as well as the northernmost edges of both Quebec and Ontario. Originally, nearly all of the Northwest Territories were lands granted by the British Parliament to the Hudson's Bay Company. But when the Dominion of Canada was organized, these Territories were taken over by the new government, and all British possessions in the far north were transferred to Dominion control. Bit by bit, the Northwest Territories were developed, and bit by bit, large regions were annexed by neighboring Provinces. Nearly all of the lands in the far north are useless for agriculture, and are so forbidding in their landscape and climate that no settlement exists for hundreds of miles. But the rich mineral resources of the Territories are changing the picture in the far north, and though the Territories are governed directly from Ottawa, more and more responsibility is being transferred to local authorities and to the Territorial government at Yellowknife. As shortages of oil, natural gas, and other mineral resources begin to plague the lands to the south, the vast resources of the Northwest Territories promise to make Canada one of the world's leading energy producing nations. And the lands once described as "the barren reaches of the frozen north" will be opened to development at last.
  
  Image Size: 14 x 12 in.
  Overall Size: 17.25 x 15 in.
  Unframed.
  (B05409)

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