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Franklin ((1))
[< Sir John Franklin, English explorer, 1786-1847]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a district in the Northwest Territories, embracing all islands in Hudson Bay and Strait, and the Arctic Ocean, north to the Pole. Also called Franklin District.
Quotations
1923
A man's foot may freeze; or his ax may slip; or his canoe may sink; or his dogs may die; and the pain of "Marie Chapdelaine " is the pain of Keewatin, Franklin, and Mackenzie as well as of Ontario.
1962
Yukon Tory Erik Nielson . . . introduced a bill to extend the franchise to the Districts of Keewatin and Franklin by adding their 777,413 sq.mi. of Arctic wastes to the Mackenzie electoral district.