DCHP-1 Online
Franklin ((1)) [< Sir John Franklin, English explorer, 1786-1847] 
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.
- 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.
- 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.