DCHP-1 Online
provisional territory 
a large unorganized or partly organized frontier area established primarily for judicial purposes.
See also: district (def. 1)
- 1884 Agent's office, Swift Current, Assa., containing 32,290 square miles more or less, being composed of part of the Provisional territory of Assiniboia, and more particularly described as follows. . . .
- 1897 Two new provisional districts or territories have recently been erected in the far northwest by the Canadian government. The first is that called Mackenzie. . . .
- 1884 Agent's office, Swift Current, Assa., containing 32,290 square miles more or less, being composed of part of the Provisional territory of Assiniboia, and more particularly described as follows. . . .