Area code 867
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Area code 867 is the area code for the three Canadian territories in the Arctic far north.
+1-867 was created on October 21, 1997 from portions of two existing Canadian area codes.
Nearly all of the eastern Northwest Territories (along with most of western Québec) were originally in area code 819. The Yukon territory and the western portion of the Northwest Territories were originally covered by Alberta area code 403.
- The digits were chosen to promote the theme "TOP of the world", as TOP spells 867 on a North American dial.
- 1867 also happens to be commemorated as the year of Canadian Confederation.
Since then, Nunavut has taken over all of the former 819 portion of the Northwest Territories, plus part of the old 403 area. Area code 403 (Calgary, Alberta) has since been further split to create 780 for the northern two-thirds of Alberta, including Edmonton.
[edit] Places that use this area code
| Area code 1-867 covers all points in the three Canadian territories:
nominally ending at the North Pole. |
To the extent that exchanges within the territories also serve some customers in adjacent provinces, 867 numbers can also be found in Fraser and Swan Lake, British Columbia (served from Carcross and Swift River, respectively), and Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta (served from Fort Smith). Excluded from this area code is Environment Canada's weather station at Eureka which uses (204)-984
Each community only has one central office code, except for:
- Whitehorse, Yukon (867) - 332 333 334 393 455 456 633 667 668
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (867) - 444 445 669 765 766 767 873 920 999
- Iqaluit, Nunavut (867) - 222 975 979
- Inuvik, Northwest Territories (867) - 678 777
- Fort Smith, Northwest Territories (867) - 870 872
- Hay River, Northwest Territories (867) - 874 875
(Until 1978, only Whitehorse (633, 667, 668) and Hay River (396, 874) had more than one prefix; Hay River was reduced to one (874), while Yellowknife (873) had a second prefix (920) added. Iqaluit (979), Inuvik (777) and Hay River received second prefixes in the 2001-2004 period, and Fort Smith (872) in 2006.)
If Northwestel's proposal for a new regulatory regime is approved for 2007, allowing resale of local telephone service, additional central office codes should not be required for competitive carriers wishing to offer local service. If the CRTC approves facilities-based local service competition, the expense of deployment will probably limit it to major communities, necessitating additional prefixes only in communities that already have multiple prefixes. Communities that now have only one prefix are not likely to need a second prefix other than for local growth.
[edit] See also
- List of North American area codes
- CNA exchange list for area +1-867
- Natural Resources Canada, Polar Continental Shelf Project - Eureka Weather Station
| Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory Area Code: 867 | ||
|---|---|---|
| North: Country code +7 in Russia at the North Pole | ||
| West: 907 | area code 867 | East: Country code +299 in Greenland |
| South: 250, 780, 306, 204, 807, 705, 819, 709 | ||
| Province of British Columbia Area Codes: 250, 604, 778 | ||
| Province of Quebec area codes: 418, 450, 514, 819 | ||
