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Northeast(ern) Territory Hist. 
prior to 1912, a name given to the entire Labrador peninsula. See 1892 quote.
- 1892 (1908) NORTH-EAST TERRITORY By this name is known the whole of the Labrador peninsula (120,000) square miles north of the province of Quebec, and west of the Atlantic coast-strip, which is politically attached to Newfoundland under the name of Labrador.
- 1961 Major J. D. Moodie of the North West Mounted Police was appointed Acting Commissioner of the unorganized Northeastern Territories.
- 1892 (1908) NORTH-EAST TERRITORY By this name is known the whole of the Labrador peninsula (120,000) square miles north of the province of Quebec, and west of the Atlantic coast-strip, which is politically attached to Newfoundland under the name of Labrador.