List of lieutenant governors of the Northwest Territories
This list outlines the Lieutenant Governor (English lieutenant governors ) of the Northwest Territories in Canada. These represented the head of state from 1869 (purchase of Rupert's land and the North-Western Territory ) and 1905 ( establishing the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan ). Since then, represents a commissioner, the federal government and de facto occurs also as the representative of the monarch. Yukon was isolated in 1898 from Northwest Territories and since then has its own Commissioner.