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N.W.T.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Northwest Territories (Canada).


NWT British  

abbreviation

  1. Northwest Territories (of Canada)

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Another firefighter, Adam Yeadon, 25, died Saturday while fighting a wildfire near his home in Fort Liard, N.W.T.

From Seattle Times

According to a report from the government of the N.W.T., the number of aurora tourists more than quadrupled over the last six years — a trend evident even in the food scene of Yellowknife, population around 20,000.

From New York Times

Great lead-zinc-silver deposits, lately found at Pine Point, less than 60 miles from the Hay River road, may bring a new smelter city of 15,000 to the N.W.T. within a decade.

From Time Magazine Archive

Act, and by reasserting the existing rights granted by the N.W.T.

From Project Gutenberg

In short, the view in mind was something in the nature of that which has since been adopted by our neighbors of the North, where there is a central or national station or farm at Ottawa and sub-stations or branch farms at Nappan, Nova Scotia, Brandon, Manitoba, Indian Head, N.W.T., and Agassiz, British Columbia, all under the able direction of Mr. William Saunders, one of our esteemed fellow workers.

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