A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, belonging or connected to a particular country, person, or animal.
6-594: The Stickeen Territories / s t ɪ ˈ k iː n / , also colloquially rendered as Stickeen Territory, Stikine Territory, and Stikeen Territory, was a territory of British North America whose brief existence began July 19, 1862, and concluded July of the following year. The region was split from the North-Western Territory in the wake of the Stikine Gold Rush . The initial strike attracted large numbers of miners — mostly American — to
12-546: A territory is usually a geographic area which has not been granted the powers of self-government, i.e. an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state . As a subdivision, a territory in most countries is an organized division of an area that is controlled by a country but is not formally developed into, or incorporated into, a political unit of that country, which political units are of equal status to one another and are often referred to by words such as "provinces", "regions", or "states". In its narrower sense, it
18-582: Is "a geographic region, such as a colonial possession, that is dependent on an external government." The origins of the word "territory" begin with the Proto-Indo-European root ters ('to dry'). From this emerged the Latin word terra ('earth, land') and later the Latin word territorium ('land around a town'). Territory made its debut as a word in Middle English during the 14th century. At this point
24-655: The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of British Columbia . The boundaries of the Stickeen Territories were the 62nd parallel to the north, the 125th meridian to the east, the Nass and Finlay Rivers to the south, and the panhandle of Russian America to the west (only vaguely defined by treaty and disputed until resolved with the Alaska Boundary Settlement of 1903). A year later, the Stickeen Territories
30-622: The region; by detaching the region from the exclusive trade zone of the Hudson's Bay Company , British authorities were able to impose tariffs and licences on the speculators. The new territory, named after the Stikine River , was under the responsibility of the Governor of the Colony of British Columbia , James Douglas , who was appointed "Administrator of the Stickeen Territories" and under British law, within
36-815: Was dissolved, most of its former land being added to the Colony of British Columbia , except for the sector north of the 60th parallel , which was returned to the North-Western Territory . In 1895, most of this strip was again redistributed, this time to the District of Yukon , as newly constituted during the midst of the Klondike Gold Rush . The remainder of the strip stayed in the Northwest Territories . 58°01′00″N 131°00′00″W / 58.01667°N 131.00000°W / 58.01667; -131.00000 ( Stickeen Territories ) Territory (country subdivision) In international politics ,
#370629