DCHP-3

provisional territory

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large unorganized or partly organized frontier area established primarily for judicial purposes.

See: district(def. 1)

Quotations

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. . . .