North American Nickel Reports on Annual General Meeting

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
Meeting (the "Meeting") of shareholders held on July 9, 2014. 


The shareholders ratified and approved an amendment to the Company's Board of
Directors to allow for a total of six members. Mark Fedikow, Doug Ford, Jim
Clucas, Edward Ford, Gilbert Clark and John Roozendaal were re-elected as
directors of the Company for the ensuing year. The shareholders also approved
Dale Matheson Carr-Hilton LaBonte LLP to be re-appointed as auditors. 


North American Nickel President and Interim CEO Mark Fedikow stated: "The
renewed support for the Board of Directors from shareholders at today's Annual
General Meeting bolsters our strategy to move forward with a corporate agenda
that includes an aggressive nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM exploration program at our
Maniitsoq property in Greenland. We will strive to deliver exceptional
shareholder value through our exploration programs". 


Following the AGM, the directors of the Company re-appointed Mark Fedikow
President and Interim CEO; Neil Richardson COO, Cheryl Messier CFO and
Secretary; and Doug Ford Non-Executive Chairman.


The Company would also like to announce that it has granted incentive stock
options to certain employees and consultants of the Company to purchase
3,470,000 common shares in the capital of the Company pursuant to the Company's
stock option plan. The options are exercisable, on or before July 09, 2019, at
an exercise price of $0.62 per share.


About North American Nickel

North American Nickel is a mineral exploration company with 100% owned
properties in Maniitsoq, Greenland, Sudbury, Ontario, and the Thompson, Manitoba
nickel belt. 


The Maniitsoq property in Greenland is a Camp scale project comprising 3,601
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 greater than 75km-long belt is situated along, and near,
the southwest coast of Greenland, which is pack ice free year round. 


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. 


Statements about the Company's future expectations and all other statements in
this press release other than historical facts are "forward looking statements"
within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and as that term defined in the Private
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company intends that such forward-looking
statements be subject to the safe harbours created thereby. Since these
statements involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any
time, the Company's actual results may differ materially from the expected
results. 


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John Roozendaal

Director

North American Nickel Inc.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that
term is defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the
adequacy or accuracy of this release.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
North American Nickel Inc.
Evan Sleeman
604-986-2020
Toll free: 1-866-816-0118