Stikine Territory

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Stikine Territory (usually spelt Stickeen in the 19th Century) was a territory that existed in British North America from July 19, 1862 until July of the next year. A gold rush in the part of Alaska directly to the west had attracted settlers to the region, the British authorities thus felt it was advisable to detach the region from the Hudson's Bay Company's lands. The new territory, named after the Stikine River, was under the responsibility of the Governor of British Columbia and under that colony's law and courts.

Only a year later it was decided that the western regions should be amalgamated. Stikine, and the Queen Charlotte Islands were thus added to British Columbia. The northernmost section, above the 60th parallel, was merged back into the North-Western Territory.