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Yukon Territory
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a territory in Northwestern Canada, established June 13, 1898.
Quotations
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. . . .