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Northwest territory Hist.

• the vast region north and west of Lake Superior, as known by the fur traders and explorers.

  See also: Northwest (def. 1a)  Northwest territories  

  • 1807  (1809)  I had the pleasure of seeing both an arrival and departure of canoes from and to the north-west territories.
  • 1860  The North-West territory lies open before us--a field white for the harvest.
  • 1880  One of the gravest of the questions presented for solution by the Dominion of Canada, when the enormous region of the country formerly known as the North-West Territories and Rupert's Land, was entrusted by the Empire of Great Britain and Ireland to her rule, was the securing the alliance of the Indian tribes and maintaining friendly relations with them.
  • 1957  Macdonald . . . had taken a long time to consent to the incorporation of Rupert's Land and the North-West Territory in a Canadian Union.