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Southern Department Hist. 
n. the extensive administrative division of the Hudson's Bay Company extending from James Bay southward to the Canadas and including the East Main.
- 1822 (1931) In the Southern Department (where there is a great want of Talent) I think Mr. Haldane might be useful particularly at Temiscamingue but here he devotes himself more to Legislating than to business.
- 1927 . . . Moose Factory, then [c1835] the headquarters of what was known as the Southern Department.
- 1822 (1931) In the Southern Department (where there is a great want of Talent) I think Mr. Haldane might be useful particularly at Temiscamingue but here he devotes himself more to Legislating than to business.