DCHP-3

Prince Rupert's Land

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the territory granted by charter in 1670 to the Hudson's Bay Company and surrendered to the Government of Canada in 1870 for a compensation of £300,000, understood as comprising all land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay and so named because Prince Rupert was first governor of the Company.

Quotations

1844
By Joseph Howse, Esq. F.R.G.S. and resident twenty years in Prince Rupert's Land, in the service of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company.
1930
Once he had gone into Canada, a distant country in the East ruled by the same soverign who ruled Prince Rupert's Land, Queen Victoria, superior in authority even to the Governor of the Hudson Bay.