:''The Keewatin Region was a distinct entity from the

District of Keewatin The District of Keewatin was a territory of Canada and later an administrative district of the Northwest Territories. It was created in 1876 by the ''Keewatin Act'', and originally it covered a large area west of Hudson Bay. In 1905, it became a ...

, although much of their territory overlapped.'' Northwest Territories Keewatin Region

The Keewatin Region was a region of the Northwest Territories, in use as an administrative and statistical division until the creation of

Nunavut Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the '' Nunavut Act'' and the '' Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act'' ...

in 1999. The majority of Keewatin Region fell on the Nunavut side of the boundary and was reconstituted as Kivalliq Region within the new territory, while a strip on the region's west side remaining in the NWT was transferred to Fort Smith Region. Kivalliq continues to be referred to as "''Keewatin Region, Nunavut''" in some circumstances, such as by Statistics Canada. The regional seat of the Keewatin Region was Rankin Inlet.

* Anawak, Caroline, and Meryl Cook. ''Keewatin Suicide Prevention and Intervention Study''. Rankin Inlet, N.W.T.: Kivalliq Consulting, Management and Training Services, 1986. * Tella, Subhas. ''Precambrian Geology of Parts of Tavani, Marble Island, and Chesterfield Inlet Map Areas, District of Keewatin A Progress Report''. ttawa Canada: Geological Survey of Canada, 1986. History of the Northwest Territories Historical census divisions of Canada 1999 disestablishments in the Northwest Territories {{NorthwestTerritories-geo-stub

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