District of Mackenzie

Summary

The District of Mackenzie was a regional administrative district of Canada's Northwest Territories. The district consisted of the portion of the Northwest Territories directly north of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan on Canada's mainland.[1]

District of Mackenzie
District of North-West Territories
1895–1999

District of Mackenzie c. 1905
History 
• Established
1895
• Disestablished
1999
Today part ofNorthwest Territories

Along with the District of Keewatin and the District of Franklin, it was one of the last remaining districts of the old Northwest Territories before the formation of Nunavut in 1999, at which point it ceased to exist. As an administrative district of the NWT it had ceased to function several years prior to division.

Today the area that formerly comprised the District of Mackenzie is mostly included in the Northwest Territories (which is no longer subdivided into districts). The remainder, along with all of Keewatin and most of Franklin, is in Nunavut.

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  1. ^ History of the Name of the Northwest Territories

61°40′N 114°00′W / 61.667°N 114.000°W / 61.667; -114.000 (District of Mackenzie centred on Great Slave Lake)