Yukon—Mackenzie River was a federal

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that was represented in the

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from 1949 to 1953. It covered the

Yukon Yukon () is a Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada, bordering British Columbia to the south, the Northwest Territories to the east, the Beaufort Sea to the north, and the U.S. state of Alaska to the west. It is Canada’s we ...

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, and the southwestern part of the

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. This riding was created in 1947, and was only used in the 1949 federal election. The Northwest Territories had not been represented in the House of Commons since 1905 following the creation of

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and

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two years earlier. Yukon had been represented continuously since a byelection in January 1903. It was abolished in 1952 when it was redistributed into

Mackenzie River The Mackenzie River (French: ; Slavey language, Slavey: ' èh tʃʰò literally ''big river''; Inuvialuktun: ' uːkpɑk literally ''great river'') is a river in the Canadian Canadian boreal forest, boreal forest and tundra. It forms, ...

and

ridings. It consisted of the Yukon Territory and the part of the District of Mackenzie in the Northwest Territories lying west of the

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longitude. The remainder of the District of Mackenzie, as well as the Districts of Keewatin, Franklin and Ungava, had no representation until 1962.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yukon-Mackenzie River Former federal electoral districts of Yukon Former federal electoral districts of Northwest Territories Canadian federal electoral districts established in 1947 Constituencies disestablished in 1953 1947 establishments in Yukon 1947 establishments in the Northwest Territories 1953 disestablishments in Yukon 1953 disestablishments in the Northwest Territories

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