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Encyclopedia > District of Ungava

The District of Ungava was a former regional administrative district of Canada's Northwest Territories. It covered the northern half of what is today Quebec. It was absorbed into the Province of Quebec in 1912. A former territory in the United States is called Northwest Territory. ... This article describes the Canadian province. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ...


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"Extracts from Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, ... (2430 words)
The Ungava district proper is the area embraced by the watershed whose outflow drains into Ungava bay.
The north-western portion of the district is a great area abounding in abrupt hills and precipitous mountains of various heights.
The interior of the district is excessively vaned by ridges and spurs of greater or less elevation.
Quebec - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (3332 words)
The addition of parts of the vast and scarcely populated District of Ungava of the Northwest Territories between 1898 and 1912 created the modern Province of Quebec.
Quebec is bordered by the province of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay to the west, the provinces of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador to the east, the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York) to the south and Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay to the north.
The Inuit continue to fish, whale, and seal in the harsh Arctic climate along the coasts of Hudson and Ungava Bay.
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