The Arctic Divide (also known as the Northern Divide) is located in western and northern Canada and separates the Arctic Ocean watershed from the Hudson Bay watershed. The western terminus of the Arctic Divide connects to the Continental Divide at Snow Dome Mountain, on the edge of the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park on the eastern border of British Columbia, and then traverses northeasterly across Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to northern Baffin Island then continues southeasterly along the island spine (height of land) to the tip of Meta Incognita Peninsula which is at its easternmost terminus. The nearest inhabited place to the eastern terminus is the village of Kimmirut which is located on the southeast shore of Baffin Island adjacent to Hudson Strait.

The Arctic divide was a major barrier to transportation until the Methye Portage in northwestern Saskatchewan was discovered in 1778, which opened up the Arctic rivers to the fur traders and became part of a transcontinental trade route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It was of significance in Canadian history because it marked the northern boundary of Rupert′s Land, which was the trading monopoly area of the Hudson′s Bay Company.

The Arctic Divide is the northern most water divide in North America with its coordinates at 72.0024000, -82.1291560. The water divide with the second most northern divide in North America is the Continental Divide in Alaska with its coordinates at 65.668500, -166.7551810.

The Arctic Water Divide spans five different Geographical Regions, which includes:

The Algonquian Indigenous People were the first major migration from Mesopotamia who came across the Beringia land bridge. Leaving Ur at about 2200 BCE, the paternal head of the tribe walked eastward to the Great Ocean, then northeast along the coastline. In time, this first migration arrived at a narrow strip of low lying land the stretched out to the east. Still not ready to stop their migrations, the entire tribe of Asian travelers choose to continue on their path across this land bridge to see what was on the opposite side. Unbeknownst to them at the time, this choice would take them not only to a new homeland but also onto a new continent.

Nearly two hundred years after the first migration, about the year 2000 BCE, a second migration from the region of Mesopotamia occurred, as this family decide that they would leave their parent′s home and travel to the east in search for their new homeland. After several years of migrating eastward, these people, also of Asian descent, crossed the Beringia Land Bridge and then began their search for for a suitable locations to call their homeland. This second migrations also came to the North American continent eventually became the Uto-Aztecan Native Americans who settled in the southwestern areas of the continent.

The Athabascan speaking were the third major migration, who began their travels sometime after 1900 BCE, for the circumstances that they faces in their parent′s homeland, also chose to travel east, walked across the Beringia Land Bridge and started their settlement very quickly, in locations now known as the state of Alaska. Later, as the nation grew larger and needed more land, several of the descendants of those who had migrated onto the North American continent choose to move inland while others moved further to the south along the coastal area. Even later, others moved further south and became the ancestors of the Navajo and other southwestern Native Americans.

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