5th North-West Legislative Assembly
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The 5th North-West Legislative Assembly lasted from 1902 until dissolution in 1905. This would be the largest membership of any Assembly to date in the Northwest Territories
and the only one that truly had political parties, it would also be the last one to be fully elected and have a speaker until 1975 and the last one to have a Premier and executive council until 1980. It was dissolved due to the division of Alberta
and Saskatchewan
from the territories.
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...
and the only one that truly had political parties, it would also be the last one to be fully elected and have a speaker until 1975 and the last one to have a Premier and executive council until 1980. It was dissolved due to the division of Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
and Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
from the territories.