Keewatin is a
Cree
The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada ...
word meaning "Blizzard of the North" and can refer to the following:
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Places
Canada
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Keewatin, Ontario, a town amalgamated with the towns of Kenora and Jaffray Melick to form Kenora
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District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories
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Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories
:''The Keewatin Region was a distinct entity from the District of Keewatin, although much of their territory overlapped.''
The Keewatin Region was a region of the Northwest Territories, in use as an administrative and statistical division until ...
, partially overlapped the District of Keewatin, but was a distinct entity
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Keewatin Region, Nunavut
The Kivalliq Region (; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑭᕙᓪᓕᖅ ) is an administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. It consists of the portion of the mainland to the west of Hudson Bay together with Southampton Island and Coats Island. The regional ...
, an alternative name for Kivalliq Region
United States
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Keewatin, Minnesota
Keewatin is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,068 at the 2010 census.
U.S. Highway 169 serves as a main route in Keewatin. Students from the Keewatin area attend Nashwauk Keewatin High School.
Geography
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, a city
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Keewaydin, Minneapolis
Keewaydin is a neighborhood in the Nokomis community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its boundaries are Minnehaha Parkway to the north, 34th Avenue to the east, 54th Street to the south, and Cedar Avenue to the west. The neighborhood contains the ma ...
, Minnesota, a neighborhood in Minneapolis
Other uses
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Diocese of Keewatin
The Diocese of Keewatin was a diocese of the Anglican Church of Canada. As of 1 August 2014, it no longer had any territorial jurisdiction, but it continued to exist as a legal entity until 30 September 2015, when it was formally closed.
Formerl ...
, a former Anglican Church of Canada diocese
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Keewatin Air
Keewatin Air (IATA: FK) is an airline that operates from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The airline was started by Frank Robert May (who had been a pilot for Lamb Air) and his wife Judy Saxby in 1971, in the Keewatin Region, then part of the Northwe ...
, an airline that operates from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
* Keewatin Community College, former name of
University College of the North
University College of the North (UCN) is a post-secondary institution located in Northern Manitoba, Canada. UCN has a student body of approximately 2,400 annually, and a staff of approximately 400. The Chancellor of UCN is Edwin Jebb.
History
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Keewatin ice sheet Keewatin is a Cree word meaning "Blizzard of the North" and can refer to the following:
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* Keewatin, Ontario, a town amalgamated with the towns of Kenora and Jaffray Melick to form Kenora
* District of Keewatin, Northwest T ...
, one of the four major ice centers of the
Laurentide Ice Sheet
The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years a ...
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Keewatin Railway
The Keewatin Railway Company is a First Nations-owned shortline railroad that operates in northern Manitoba, between The Pas, and Pukatawagan. This is Canada's second First Nations railway, the first being Labrador and Northern Quebec's Tshiueti ...
a First Nations-owned shortline in northern Manitoba
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Keewatin Region (disambiguation)
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SS ''Keewatin'', a Canadian Pacific Railway steamship
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Vicariate Apostolic of Keewatin, a Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction
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