List of Canadian territorial senators
- List of Canadian territorial senators
This is a list of past and present Canadian senators from the territories of Yukon, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
Each territory is currently represented by a single senator.
The Northwest Territories was granted two Senate seats in 1879 and doubled to four seats in 1903.After Alberta and Saskatchewan were created, the territories would not have Senate representation until the Constitution Act of 1975 that gave one seat to the Northwest Territories and one seat to the Yukon.
Nunavut would be granted one seat in the Nunavut Act of 1993.
Current
Historic
The Territories had representation in the Senate in the early years post-Confederation. After the creation of Alberta and Saskatchewan, however, the Territories were not represented in the Senate until 1975.
ee also
*List of Canadian senators
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