This article is about the trading territory. For the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Church of Canada, see Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land. The Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land was founded in 1875 and is one of four Ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. For the Anglican diocese, see Diocese of Rupert's Land. The Diocese of Rupert's Land is a Diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Rupert's Land, showing location of York Factory

Rupert's Land, also sometimes called "Prince Rupert's Land", was a territory in British North America, consisting of the Hudson Bay drainage basin, that was de facto owned by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years. York Factory was a settlement located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba, Canada at the mouth of the Hayes British North America consisted of the colonies and territories of the British Empire in continental North America after the end of the American Revolutionary Hudson Bay watershed (including the James and Ungava bays This 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. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It was named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a nephew of Charles I and the first Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria (German Ruprecht Pfalzgraf bei Rhein Herzog von Bayern) commonly called Prince Rupert of the Rhine, (17 Charles I, (19 November 1600 &ndash 30 January 1649 was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution.

Areas once belonging to Rupert's Land include all of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, northern parts of Ontario and Quebec, as well as parts of Minnesota and North Dakota and very small parts of Montana and South Dakota. Manitoba (English ˌmænɨˈtoʊbə French /manitoba/ is a province of Canada, spanning 647797 square kilometres (250116  sq mi of North America Saskatchewan (səˈskætʃəwən) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588276 Alberta (ælˈbɝtə is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1 1905 Nunavut (ˈnuːnəvʊt ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers North Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern South Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America.

Colonial history

In 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) was granted a charter by King Charles II, giving it a trading monopoly over the watershed of all rivers and streams flowing into Hudson Bay, thereby making the HBC de facto owners of the whole of Rupert's Land. Charles II (Charles Stuart 29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685 was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. In Economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos, alone or single + polein, to sell exists when a specific individual or enterprise has sufficient A drainage basin is an extent of Land where Water from Rain or Snow melt drains downhill into a body of water such as a River, This covered an area of 3.9 million square kilometres (1. To help compare Orders of magnitude of different surface Areas here is a list of areas between 1 million km² and 10 million km² 5 million sq mi), over one-third the area of Canada today.

In 1821, the North West Company of Montreal and the Hudson's Bay Company merged, with a combined territory that was further extended by a license to the watershed of the Arctic Ocean on the north and the Pacific Ocean on the west. For the grocery chain see The North West Company. The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions

In 1870 the trade monopoly was abolished and trade in the region was opened to any entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome The company sold Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada, under the terms of the Rupert's Land Act of 1868. For other geographical names that use the term "Northwest" see Northwest. Canadian Confederation was the process by which the federal Dominion of Canada was formed beginning 1 July 1867 from the The Rupert's Land Act of 1868 was legislation authorizing the transfer of Rupert's Land from the control of the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion Both territories were then combined as the Northwest Territories. The Northwest Territories (ˌnɔrθˌwɛstˈtɛrɨtɔriz ( NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory

See also

• 49th parallel north
• British Arctic Territories
• Hudson's Bay Company
• Hudson's Bay Company Archives

Further reading