District of Mackenzie
{{Short description|Former district of the Northwest Territories, Canada}}
{{for-multi|the political district on New Zealand's South Island|Mackenzie District|the federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada|Mackenzie (federal electoral district)}}
{{Infobox former subdivision
|conventional_long_name = District of Mackenzie
|subdivision = District
|nation = North-West Territories
|today = Northwest Territories, Nunavut
|year_start = 1895
|year_end = 1999
|image_map = KeewatinNIEdot400B.jpg
|image_map_caption = District of Mackenzie {{circa|1905}}
}}
The District of Mackenzie was a regional administrative district of Canada's Northwest Territories. The district consisted of the portion of the Northwest Territories directly north of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan on Canada's mainland.{{Cite web |title=History of the Name of the Northwest Territories |url=https://www.pwnhc.ca/territorial-evolution-of-the-northwest-territories/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506155113/https://www.pwnhc.ca/territorial-evolution-of-the-northwest-territories/ |archive-date=2021-05-06 |access-date=2020-01-12}}
History
The District of Mackenzie was sparsely populated; the population was just 6,507 in 1911, but grew to 9,316 by 1931.{{Cite book |last=McGlynn |first=J. C. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Metallic_Mineral_Industry_District_of_Ma/OOVq12tqa3MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%2522district+of+mackenzie%2522%252B%2522population%2522&dq=%2522district+of+mackenzie%2522%252B%2522population%2522&printsec=frontcover |title=Metallic Mineral Industry, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories |date=1971 |publisher=Department of Energy, Mines and Resources |page=2 |language=en |access-date=2025-01-09}} By 1960, the population had increased to 12,492.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Phillips |first=R.A.J. |title=Mackenzie |encyclopedia=World Book Encyclopedia |publisher=Field Enterprises |location=Chicago, IL |year=1961 |volume=11 |page=18}}
Along with the District of Keewatin and the District of Franklin, it was one of the last remaining districts of the old Northwest Territories before the formation of Nunavut in 1999, at which point it ceased to exist. As an administrative district of the NWT it had ceased to function several years prior to division.
Today the area that formerly comprised the District of Mackenzie is mostly included in the Northwest Territories (which is no longer subdivided into districts). The remainder, along with all of Keewatin and most of Franklin, is in Nunavut.
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Category:Districts of the Northwest Territories
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Category:1895 establishments in the Northwest Territories
Category:1999 disestablishments in the Northwest Territories