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Northern Department Hist. 
the largest of the administrative divisions of the Hudson's Bay Company. See 1956 quote.
- 1824 (1931) I do not conceive that the business of the Northn Deptmt requires at any time exceeding Twenty Clerks whose Education & abilities should lead them to expect preferment in the Service, while there are Thirty Four commissioned Gentlemen attached thereto.
- 1956 The Hudson Bay Company's Northern Department extended from Hudson Bay to the Rocky Mountains and from the United States Boundary to the Arctic Ocean.
- 1963 On July 5 [1823] the Council of the Northern Department of Rupert's Land appointed Grant . . . to be clerk in Lower Red River for three years at a salary of not more than £120.
- 1824 (1931) I do not conceive that the business of the Northn Deptmt requires at any time exceeding Twenty Clerks whose Education & abilities should lead them to expect preferment in the Service, while there are Thirty Four commissioned Gentlemen attached thereto.