| 释义 |
- Places
- Other uses
Keewatin is a Cree word meaning "Blizzard of the North" and can refer to the following: Places- United States
- Keewatin, Minnesota, USA, a city
- Canada
- Keewatin, Ontario, a town amalgamated with the towns of Kenora and Jaffray Melick to form Kenora
- District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories, which included parts of modern-day Nunavut, Manitoba and Ontario until 1912
- Keewatin Region
- Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories, partially overlapped the District of Keewatin, but was a distinct entity
- Keewatin Region, Nunavut - alternative name of Kivalliq Region, a Nunavut region mostly coterminal with the above
Other uses- Diocese of Keewatin, Anglican Church of Canada diocese straddling the Manitoba-Ontario border
- Vicariate Apostolic of Keewatin, Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction which extended into northern Saskatchewan
- SS Keewatin, Canadian Pacific Railway steamship which sailed the Great Lakes between Port McNicoll and Fort William/Port Arthur, Ontario.
- Keewatin Railway a First Nations-owned shortline in northern Manitoba.
- Keewatin Ice Sheet is one of the four major ice flows during the Pleistocene epoch.
The literal meaning of this Cree word is "the wind that comes back < kiiwee-, come back + -tin, wind"[1] {{Disambig}} |