Contributions

  • Assiniboia. Council. - Contributor
  • Rupert's Land. Northern Dept. Council. - Contributor
  • Northwest Territories. - Contributor

Publication

1914 - Government Printing Bureau, Ottawa

Language

English

Word Count

0 words, Guess

Page Count

0 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCF1060 .O48

Description

"Rupert's Land, or Prince Rupert's Land, was a territory in British North America, consisting mostly of the Hudson Bay drainage basin that was nominally owned by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years from 1670 to 1870, although numerous aboriginal groups lived in the same territory and disputed the sovereignty of the area. The area once known as Rupert's Land is now mainly a part of Canada, but a small portion is now in the United States of America. It was named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a nephew of Charles I and the first Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. In December 1821 the HBC monopoly was extended from Rupert's Land to the Pacific coast. Areas once belonging to Rupert's Land include all of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, and northern parts of Ontario and Quebec, as well as parts of Minnesota and North Dakota and very small parts of Montana and South Dakota."--Wikiped, April 2013.

Subjects

Genres

  • Sources.

Series Statement

  • Publications of the Canadian Archives, no. 9

Other Editions

  • The Canadian North-west, its early development and legislative records: minutes of the Councils of the Red river colony and the Northern department of Rupert's land.Government Printing Bureau1914-01-01

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