DCHP-3

Columbia Department

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the administrative district of the Hudson's Bay Company occupying approximately what are now Oregon, Washington, and southern British Columbia.

See: Columbia(def. 1)

Quotations

1821
A kind of demi-official report is in circulation that the Company have come to the conclusive resolve of evacuating the Columbia Department altogether.
1921
The country was also known as Columbia District. . . .
1946
. . . the Columbia Department extended over the whole vast watershed of the Columbia River, which includes most of the states of Washington and Oregon.