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1895 - North-West Territories

North-West Territories, a large possession of the Dominion of Canada, including all that portion of British North America outside the provinces £ Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. It is bounded on the N. by the Arctic Ocean, on the E. by the Atlantic, on the W. by the Pacific, and on the S. by parts of the Dominion of Canada and the United States, Area, 2,314,808 square miles. Pop. in 1891, 99,722. Hudson's Bay and the district of Keewatin divide it into two portions, of which the eastern is often called East Main. This immense district was, until 1870, known as the Hudson's Bay Territory, and was governed by the Hudson's Bay Company, by whom it was divided into four large departments or regions, subdivided into 33 districts, including 155 posts. The government was administered by a chief governor and council, and the various departments by chief factors and chief traders; but in 1869 the company relinquished governmental functions, and in 1870 the North-West Territories came into the possession of the Dominion of Canada, and were made a province...

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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