Rupert's Land
The Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land was formed in 1875, and consists of ten dioceses:
- Athabasca (Alberta),
- The Arctic (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Nunavik (northern Quebec)),
- Brandon (Manitoba),
- Calgary (Alberta),
- Edmonton (Alberta),
- Keewatin (Manitoba and northwestern Ontario, north of the 49th parallel),
- Qu'Appelle (Saskatchewan) (corresponding to the pre-1905 District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories),
- Rupert's Land (Manitoba),
- Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan), and
- Saskatoon (Saskatchewan).
The metropolitan is the Most Rev. David Ashdown of Keewatin.
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