Keewatin
Keewatin is a Cree word meaning "Blizzard of the North" and can refer to the following:
Places
- United States
- Keewatin, Minnesota, USA, a city
- Canada
- Keewatin, Ontario, a town amalgamated with the towns of Kenora and Jaffray Melick to form Kenora
- District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories, which included parts of modern-day Nunavut, Manitoba and Ontario until 1912
- Keewatin Region
- Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories, partially overlapped the District of Keewatin, but was a distinct entity
- Keewatin Region, Nunavut - alternative name of Kivalliq Region, a Nunavut region mostly coterminal with the above
Other uses
- Diocese of Keewatin, Anglican Church of Canada diocese straddling the Manitoba-Ontario border
- Vicariate Apostolic of Keewatin, Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction which extended into northern Saskatchewan
- SS Keewatin, Canadian Pacific Railway steamship which sailed the Great Lakes between Port McNicoll and Fort William/Port Arthur, Ontario.
- Keewatin Railway a First Nations-owned shortline in northern Manitoba.
The literal meaning of this Cree word is "the wind that comes back < kiiwee-, come back + -tin, wind"[1]
- ↑ New World Dictionary of American English, Third College Edition 1988
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