Resources

Description: 

Ts’udé Nilįné Tuyeta (Tsoo-den-ee-len Too-yuh-ta) is a Indigenous and territorial protected area.

Established under the Protected Areas Act, Ts’udé Nilįné Tuyeta will strive to protect the biodiversity of the Taiga Plains and Taiga Cordillera while contributing to the cultural continuity of an area that is a sacred place and harvesting area of the K’asho Got’ı̨nę.

Ts’udé Nilįné Tuyeta is 10,060 km² in size and lies west of the Mackenzie River and the community of Fort Good Hope.

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
File
Data Category : 
Environment
Source: 
GNWT
Description: 

The Thaidene Nëné (thy-Den-ay nen-ay) area is a celebrated cultural landscape with rich wildlife populations and unique geography located at the eastern end of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The initial Thaidene Nëné study area was approximately 33,690 km2. Thaidene Nëné means ‘Land of the Ancestors’ in the Dënesųłı̨né language.

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
File
Data Category : 
Environment
Source: 
GNWT
Description: 

All of the Mineral Tenure Data for the NWT

Resource Category: 
Data, Mineral Tenure
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Economy
https://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/Downloads/Vector/Mineral_Tenure/MineralTenureAll…
Source: 
GNWT
Description: 

This is a point shape file representing 2 kilometre incremental distances along each of the 8 NWT highways.  These 2km points do not represent the actual location of 2km highway posts found along the sides of the highways.  The feature class points are placed every 2 kilometres along a highway and represent the distance from a fixed commencement point, the beginning of that highway.

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
File
Data Category : 
Transportation
Source: 
GNWT

Boreal Caribou Range Planning Data (linked resource 1.44 GB)
Description: 

The Boreal Caribou data Package includes layers that are used for Boreal Caribou Range Planning in the NWT. This includes fire history, human disturbance, range planning regions as well as the 2020 Resource Selection Function layers for all seasons. Data sources and contact information can be found within each layer's metadata.

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Biota
https://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/Downloads/Vector/biota/BorealCaribouLayerPackage…
Source: 
GNWT
Description: 

Proposed Protected and Conservation Areas in the NWT

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
File
Data Category : 
Environment
Source: 
GNWT
Description: 

Established Protected and Conservation Areas in the NWT

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
File
Data Category : 
Environment
Source: 
GNWT
Description: 

Find a map or geospatial dataset about Indigenous communities or the North. The maps are available as web-based interactive maps or static maps that can be downloaded and printed.

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Society
https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1605796363328/1605796417543
Source: 
Indigenous
Description: 

Place Names for The Anderson River 

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Society
https://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/wiki_pages/Place%20Names
Source: 
Indigenous
Description: 

Resources on the official languages of the NWT and where they are spoken.

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Society
https://www.pwnhc.ca/official-languages-of-the-northwest-territories/
Source: 
Indigenous
Description: 

Official geographical names data are provided by the federal, provincial and territorial naming authorities of the Geographical Names Board of Canada GNBC). The Cultural Places Program of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in the NWT contributes the NWT contribution.

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Society
https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?id=LAARR
Source: 
Indigenous

Escape Room (zip/26.01 KB)
Description: 

Escape Room GIS Week Event Game shape file for Final Destination tracks.

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
File
Data Category : 
General

Escape Room (zip/26.01 KB)
Source: 
GNWT
Description: 

The dataset is a compilation of the boundaries of the 19 NWT Electoral Districts based upon the 2012 Electoral Boundary Commission and the legal descriptions found in Bill 18 of Fifth Session, Seventeenth Legislative Assembly plus any Polling Divisions within each Electoral District as determined by Elections NWT. 

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
File
Data Category : 
Boundaries
Source: 
GNWT

Fire History (zip/231.46 MB)
Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
File
Data Category : 
Biota

Fire History (zip/231.46 MB)
Source: 
GNWT

NWT Species at Risk Data (zip/36.05 MB)
Description: 

Species at Risk Ranges in the NWT, excluding migratory birds

Range distributions for NWT species at risk that are listed or assessed under federal and territorial species at risk legislation. Migratory bird species are not included and should be requested from Environment Canada (EC.SAR-NT-LEP-NT.EC@canada.ca). The supplementary table BIO_ENR_WFE_SARA_AttributeTable contains additional information for each species and can be joined to each feature class using the field ‘FeatureName’. Contact SARA@gov.nt.ca.

*You will require ArcGIS 10.6.1 or newer to open the geodatabase

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
File
Data Category : 
Biota

NWT Species at Risk Data (zip/36.05 MB)
Source: 
GNWT

Important_Wildlife_Areas_NWT (linked resource 2.82 MB)
Description: 

Important Wildlife Areas In The NWT

Resource Category: 
Data
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Biota
http://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/Downloads/Vector/Biota/Important_Wildlife_Areas_N…
Source: 
GNWT

UTM10_Cont-6 (linked resource 26.69 MB)
Description: 

Mackenzie Valley Air Photo Contours Data

Resource Category: 
Data, MVAP Contours, UTM Zone 10
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Elevation
http://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/Downloads/Vector/MVAP Contours/UTM10_Cont-6.zip
Source: 
GNWT

UTM10_Cont-5 (linked resource 54.57 MB)
Description: 

Mackenzie Valley Air Photo Contours Data

Resource Category: 
Data, MVAP Contours, UTM Zone 10
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Elevation
http://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/Downloads/Vector/MVAP Contours/UTM10_Cont-5.zip
Source: 
GNWT

UTM10_Cont-4 (linked resource 26.65 MB)
Description: 

Mackenzie Valley Air Photo Contours Data

Resource Category: 
Data, MVAP Contours, UTM Zone 10
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Elevation
http://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/Downloads/Vector/MVAP Contours/UTM10_Cont-4.zip
Source: 
GNWT

UTM10_Cont-3 (linked resource 180.68 MB)
Description: 

Mackenzie Valley Air Photo Contours Data

Resource Category: 
Data, MVAP Contours, UTM Zone 10
Type of resource: 
Link
Data Category : 
Elevation
http://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/Downloads/Vector/MVAP Contours/UTM10_Cont-3.zip
Source: 
GNWT

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