Districts of The Northwest Territories - 1912

1912

The Northwest Territories experienced further attrition in 1912:

• The entire continental portion of the District of Ungava was converted into the northern expansion of the province of Quebec. Only the district's 1500+ almost entirely uninhabited offshore islands remained part of the Northwest Territories; they were formally made a part of the Franklin District in 1920.
• Most of the District of Keewatin (i.e., everything south of 60 degrees north) was converted into the northern expansion of the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba.

The Northwest Territories now consisted of the Districts of Franklin, Mackenzie and Keewatin. Ungava was still technically a district until 1920, but with no population to administer, this district designation was effectively unused after 1912.

The three remaining districts continued to be used for a number of decades, but as control over the territory was moved from departments of the federal government to a centralized government in Yellowknife, they began to have far less use. Although the Districts of Franklin, Mackenzie and Keewatin continued to appear on many maps, the governance of the Northwest Territories was divided into four administrative regions: Inuvik, Fort Smith, Keewatin and Baffin. A fifth region, the Central Arctic Region and subsequently called the Kitikmeot, was later carved out of the Fort Smith Region.