Keewatin
Keewatin is a Cree word meaning "Blizzard of the North" and can refer to the following:
Places
Canada
- Keewatin, Ontario, a town amalgamated with the towns of Kenora and Jaffray Melick to form Kenora
- District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories
- Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories, partially overlapped the District of Keewatin, but was a distinct entity
- Keewatin Region, Nunavut, an alternative name for Kivalliq Region
United States
- Keewatin, Minnesota, a city
- Keewaydin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood in Minneapolis
Other uses
- Diocese of Keewatin, a former Anglican Church of Canada diocese
- Keewatin Air, an airline that operates from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
- Keewatin Community College, former name of University College of the North
- Keewatin ice sheet, one of the four major ice centers of the Laurentide Ice Sheet
- Keewatin Railway a First Nations-owned shortline in northern Manitoba
- Keewatin Region (disambiguation)
- SS Keewatin, a Canadian Pacific Railway steamship
- Vicariate Apostolic of Keewatin, a Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction
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