Incidence of Suicide Among the Ethnic Groups of the Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory

A study of suicides in the Yukon and Northwest Territories over the period 1959-64 has disclosed the fact that the suicide rates in both Territories are higher than the average Canadian rate and that the incidence among Eskimos is no higher than that in the white population although, during the first half of this cnetury, rates of up to 575 per 100000 were recorded in this ethnic group.