Mackenzie

District of, a district of northwestern Canada. It extends from the sixtieth parallel of north latitude to the Arctic Ocean, and from the 100th meridian to the Rocky Mountains. It includes half a million square miles of territory, and is inhabited by 5,000 or 6,000 traders, trappers, employes of the Hudson Bay Company, Indians, and Eskimo. With the other Northwest Territories, it is governed by a commissioner and a council of four appointed by the governor-general of Canada.