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New Year, new arrivals: Territory welcomes New Year's baby

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NNSL photo. The Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, NWT.

Yellowknife's first newcomer of 2018 missed being crowned New Year's baby — but not by much.

A baby, whose gender has yet to be determined, was born at Stanton Territorial Hospital at 12:15 a.m. on Jan. 2, GNWT Health and Social Services communications manager David Maguire told Yellowknifer in an email.

No babies were delivered at the hospital on New Year's Day.

NWT-wide, Inuvik welcomed a New Year's baby on Monday. Yellowknifer is awaiting confirmation on the time of birth as well as the newcomer's gender.

New Year's Day births did not occur in Fort Smith or Hay River.

With files from Kirsten Fenn