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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the administrative division of the Hudson's Bay Company extending westward from the Rocky Mountains.
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1956
On the Pacific coast or in the Western department goods were brought from England by Cape Horn to the depot at Fort Vancouver (later, 1843, Victoria).