Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories (Canada)

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Unequal triband of dark green, white and dark green charged on the white area with a local badge. This features a moose head surrounded by spruce, mountain peaks and aurora borealis stylized motives, all in black, white, dark green and light blue.

Fort Resolution, with a population of 536 (as of 1996), was formerly called by the traditional name of Deninoo Ku (meaning "moose island", canting flag), is located at 61°11'N lat. and 113°41'W long., in the Slave river delta, on the Great Slave Lake. Local languages are Chipewyan and English, and the community belongs to the electoral district of Tu Nedhe and to the land claim area of Treaty 8 First Nations.
Antonio Martins, 27 June 2000