Canada's Territories bear witness to very different historical backgrounds; from the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896 that led to the establishment of Yukon in 1898, to Nuna-vut that only became a Territory in its own right as recently as 1999. Extreme weather conditions are however, a unifying factor, with temperatures dropping to as low as -50°C with only a few hours of daylight in the winter, to summers where the sun hardly sets on the vast landscape. Over the last few years, the cyclically of the mining industry in Canada's North has been as extreme as the seasons. In 2008, the North, especially Yukon, the most developed of the three Territories, experienced what seemed to be a second gold rush, with the exploration industry booming.
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