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Northeast(ern) Territory

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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prior to 1912, a name given to the entire Labrador peninsula. See 1892 quote.

Quotations

1892
NORTH-EAST TERRITORY By this name is known the whole of the Labrador peninsula (120,000) square miles north of the province of Quebec, and west of the Atlantic coast-strip, which is politically attached to Newfoundland under the name of Labrador.
1961
Major J. D. Moodie of the North West Mounted Police was appointed Acting Commissioner of the unorganized Northeastern Territories.