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The 'District of Ungava' was a regional administrative district of Canada's Northwest Territories from 1895 to 1912. It covered the northern portion of what is today Quebec, the interior of Labrador and the offshore islands to the West and North which are now part of the Nunavut Territory.
The continental areas of the District of Ungava were transferred by the Parliament of Canada with the adoption of the Quebec Boundary Extension Act, 1898 and the Quebec Boundaries Extension Act, 1912. This territory is now part of the administrative regions Nord-du-Québec and Côte-Nord; the offshore islands of the District of Ungava remained part of the Northwest Territories until the creation of the Nunavut Territory in 1999.
In 1927, the long-standing dispute over the location of the boundary between Labrador (a dependency of the Dominion of Newfoundland) and the former District of Ungava (by then part of Quebec) was taken to the arbitration of the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which ruled in favour of Newfoundland.