Rupert's Land
The Rupert's Land was from 1670 to 1870, a private colony of the Hudson's Bay Company in North America. It is named after Ruprecht von der Pfalz, Duke of Cumberland , the society's first governor .
history
The Royal Charter , with which Charles II founded the company, gave it a monopoly on the fur trade in the catchment area of all rivers and streams that flow into Hudson Bay . This area covered around 3.9 million km² , more than a third of the area of today's Canada. Even if the HBC was formally only given control of the fur trade, it was in fact the only administration of the area and used it like a private colony. She set up bases, developed relationships with the Indian peoples of the region and sent expeditions to explore the country.
In 1821 the North West Company (NWC) from Montréal and the HBC merged. The common catchment area, which was extended to the Northwest Territory by a license , now extended to the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Pacific Ocean in the west.
In 1869 HBC sold its rights to use Rupert's land and the former NWC areas of the Canadian Dominion , the forerunner of what is now Canada, for £ 300,000 . In 1870, the Manitoba Act abolished the private administration of Rupert's Land and created the new Canadian province of Manitoba , from whose capital Fort Garry (now Winnipeg ) the vast remainder of Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories were administered as Northwest Territories .
With the creation of more provinces and territories and several border relocations, parts of the former Ruperts Land became Saskatchewan , Alberta , Nunavut , Ontario and Quebec in addition to Manitoba . With the demarcation of the border in 1818 along the 49th parallel , parts of the country went to the USA , which today belongs to the states of Minnesota , North Dakota , Montana and South Dakota .
The name Ruperts Land also bears an ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Church of Canada , which includes the Canadian prairies and much of the Canadian Arctic . It is also the name of an Anglican diocese in Manitoba .
literature
- Theodore Binnema, Gerhard J. Ens, RC Macleod (Eds.): From Rupert's Land to Canada. Essays in Honor of John E. Foster. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton AB 2001, ISBN 0-88864-363-2 .
Web links
- University of Winnipeg: Center for Rupert's Land Studies
- Rupert's Land ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Royal Charter of the Hudsons Bay Company: English full text digitized via canadiana.ca
- ^ Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Canada Buys Rupert's Land