North American Nickel Reports ON Annual General and Special Meeting

NORTH AMERICAN NICKEL INC.

2200-1055 W. Hastings Street

Vancouver, BC

V6E 2E9

Tel: (604) 770-4334

Toll Free: 1-866-816-0118

NORTH AMERICAN NICKEL REPORTS ON ANNUAL GENERAL AND

SPECIAL MEETING

Vancouver, British Columbia, June 29, 2017 – North American Nickel Inc. (TSX VENTURE: NAN)

(OTCBB: WSCRF) (CUSIP: 65704T 108) (the "Company") is pleased to report on the results of the Annual

General and Special Meeting (the "Meeting") of shareholders held on June 29, 2017.

The shareholders ratified and approved the number of directors at six (6) and Doug Ford, Jim Clucas,

Gilbert Clark, Christopher Messina, Keith Morrison and John Sabine were re -elected as directors of the

Company for the ensuing year.

In addition, Dale Matheson Carr -Hilton LaBonte LLP were re -appointed as auditors and shareholders

approved the Company's Stock Option Plan as detailed in the Management Informa tion Circular dated as

of May 25, 2017.

Following the meeting, the board of directors re-appointed John Sabine as Chairman, Keith Morrison, CEO,

Alex Dann, CFO and Mark Fedikow, President.

About North American Nickel

North American Nickel is a mineral exploration company with 100% owned properties in Maniitsoq,

Greenland and Sudbury, Ontario.

The Maniitsoq property in Greenland is a Camp scale project comprising 2,985 square km covering

numerous high-grade nickel-copper sulphide occurrences associated with norite and other mafic-ultramafic

intrusions of the Greenland Norite Belt (GNB). The >75km -long belt is situated along, and near, the

southwest coast of Greenland accessible from the existing Seqi deep water port (See NAN News Release

dated January 19, 2015) with an all year round shipping season and abundant hydro -electric potential.

The Post Creek/Halcyon property in Sudbury is strategically located adjacent to the past producing

Podolsky copper-nickel-platinum group metal deposit of KGHM International Ltd. The property lies along

the extension of the Whistle Offset dyke structure. Such geological structures host major Ni -Cu-PGM

deposits and producing mines within the Sudbury Camp.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Mark Fedikow

President

North American Nickel Inc.

For more information contact:

North American Nickel Inc.

Jaclyn Ruptash

Corporate Communications

(604) 770-4334

Toll free: 1-866-816-0118

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