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| | | 60 new local newsgroups have just been created: 12 at province level in Canada and 48* at the state level in the U.S. Rationale for creating the new groups: - Help people locate one another and hold discussions across sparsely populated areas. - (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | | | | Re: U.S. and Canada: New groups for states and provinces —Martin Legault
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| | | | (...) <snip> (...) 12 province ?? At my knowledge there is only 10 province and 3 territorys. Yes 3. April first was the day of the creation of the "Nunavut". NWT had been split in 2 west part keep NWT name and the easter portion took the Nunavut (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Canadian provinces & territories —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Oops, sorry! I meant "12 administrative divisions" or whatever the generic term is. (What is the difference between a province and a territory?) (...) Here's the actual list: (URL) should it be amended? Does Nunavut have an official mailcode? (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | | | | | Re: Canadian provinces & territories —Martin Legault
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| | | | | (...) Apology accepted A province gouvernement have a lot more "power" or "right" than a territory (principaly TAXE :-(, have the right on natural ressource, greater autonomie while a territory is dependant on the federal gouvernement for most of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | | | | | Re: Canadian provinces & territories —Martin Legault
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| | | | (...) <snip> (...) As mention on Canada Post web site(www.canadapost.ca),it will stay NT for a while, they don't want to create more trouble with years 2000 approching. For the news groups, could leave it with NT (population is not very high), (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | | | | | Re: Canadian provinces & territories —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Cool, thanks for the link. The Nunavut question is #1(!) in their FAQ: (URL) darn it, even though it's not changing anytime soon, they don't say what it will be later when it does change. Oh well. (...) I suppose at least the description (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | | | | | Re: Canadian provinces & territories —Martin Legault
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| | | | (...) Probably the best thing to do. Will probably take a lot of new moon before it get crowded. (...) didn't realize the NT sheme. BTW Nunavut is a inuit word that means "our land" Martin (25 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | | | | | Re: Canadian provinces & territories —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) One last question (hope you don't mind) -- is Yellowknife still classified under the Northwest Territories or would that be listed as part of Nunavut now? (...) Cool! --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | | | | | Re: Canadian provinces & territories —Martin Legault
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| | | | (...) Hi, sorry for the long time before reply Yellowknife is still in the NWT, it is also the capital Martin (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | | | | | Re: Canadian provinces & territories —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) No need to apologize, Martin! :-) Better late than never! This is one of the reasons that the news articles stick around forever and can be accessed via the website even long after they've expired from your newsreader (if you deleted them). (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | | | | | Re: Canadian provinces & territories —Markus Weber
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| | | | (...) Todd: This thread did indeed stick around fooooreeeever. Time for an update. Nunavut was assigned a nusic two-letter code quite a few years ago -- the official code is NU. I will be moving back to Nunavut next week and will definitely be (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.ca, FTX)
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