Nunavut adopts the Northwest Territories’ Official Languages Act

Decades

1860 – 1869
1870 – 1879
1880 – 1889
1890 – 1899
1900 – 1909
1910 – 1919
1920 – 1929
1930 – 1939
1940 – 1949
1950 – 1959
1960 – 1969
1970 – 1979
1980 – 1989
1990 – 1999
2000 – 2009
2010 – 2019
2020 – 2023

1999

On April 1, 1999, the newly created territory of Nunavut inherits the Northwest Territories’ Official Languages Act.

In 2002, Nunavut’s Languages Commissioner issued a recommendation for a new official languages act that would eliminate all irrelevant aboriginal languages and grant equal and official status to Inuit, English and French.

In 2008, the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut passed its own Official Languages Act, and in 2013, the territory passed its new Official Languages Act.