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Yukon Territory

• a territory in Northwestern Canada, established June 13, 1898.

  See also: Y.T.  Yukon (def. 3)  

  • 1913  About one-third of the total length [of the Yukon River] is in Yukon Territory. . . .
  • 1963  From all over the Yukon Territory as well as the Outside, engineers, oilmen . . . railwaymen had come to see what wonders the future held for the Yukon.
  • 1966  The Yukon Territory, which gets its name from the Indian word "yuckoo" meaning "clear water," forms the extreme northwest portion of the mainland of Canada. . . .