The District of Keewatin was a portion of Canada's Northwest Territories. The District was created in 1876 and eliminated in 1999. It covered 228,160 square miles.
The District of Keewatin was one of three districts in the Northwest Territories. The other two were the District of Mackenzie and the District of Franklin. Keewatin covered the portion of the Northwest Territories north of Manitoba on the mainland, and all isles with Hudson, James, and Ungava bays.
Because of the harsh winters and lack of inland roads, settlement of the isolated district by whites was poor, and even the native Inuit population was sparse: in 1950, there were just 2,000 persons in the entire district.
On April 1, 1999, the Keewatin Region was formally dissolved, as the Nunavut Territory was created from eastern parts of the Northwest Territories, including all of Keewatin.
In Alberta, the district (known as municipal districts) acts like a county or a city but not like the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia, all districts and counties are part of census subdivisions of their respective census divisions.
Districts tend to be less urbanised, tend to cover more than one population centre and a larger amount of rural area, and tend to have a smaller population than cities.
A district ("amphoe") is a subdivision of a Province ("changwat") in Thailand.
Feeds |
Contact