The bridge, which will span the Mackenzie River near Fort Providence is being built under a public private partnership between the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation.
org 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health Health Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories 11-16 July 2009 Yellowknife, NT Contact: Pat Thagard, Congress Coordinator Arctic Health Research Network Tel: 867-873-9337 Fax: 867-873-9338 E-mail: icch14@theedge.
5 million project to upgrade sewage treatment infrastructure in Hay River; Government of the Northwest Territories - $973,564; - $471,650 for water and sewer main replacement in Fort Simpson; Government of the Northwest Territories - $392,228; and - $433,333 for intake ground stabilization, a geophysical assessment and upgrades to the water treatment plant in Fort Smith; Government of the Northwest Territories - $603,333.
Allen has also worked to improve health and social services for the people of the north through her participation as a member of the Territorial Hospital Insurance Services Board, the Inuvik Medical Transient Centre, and as an appointee to the Council of Grandmothers, an organization that advises the government of the Northwest Territories on health, wellness and social development issues.
In 1951, they built the first school in the eastern Arctic; from 1954 on they also operated a large residential school until 1970, when the government of the Northwest Territories assumed responsibility for education.
The pilot project, which took three-and-a-half years to complete, involved the former students, the federal government, the government of the Northwest Territories and the Roman Catholic Diocese of the MacKenzie.
When Canada used its Constitutional centenary of 1967 to create a fully fledged provincial-like government of the Northwest Territories, those of us involved thought it a great step.
