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5 days ago · Rupert's Land, an area that encompasses the drainage basin of the Hudson Bay. For much of the 17th century the French colonists in North America, based in New France, operated a de facto monopoly in the North American fur trade.
2 days ago · HBC's trade monopoly was abolished in 1870, and it ceded Rupert's Land to Canada, an area of approximately 3,900,000 km 2 (1,500,000 sq mi), as part of the Northwest Territories.
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May 4, 2024 · The town of Radisson is named for the great explorer Pierre Radisson who was instrumental in the development of The Hudson’s Bay Company in western Canada then known as Rupert’s Land. Rupert’s Land was a huge land mass west of Hudson’s Bay. Pioneers were moving west hoping to find a place to settle and raise a family.
Apr 15, 2024 · George Brown had long pressed for an end to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s trading monopoly over Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory, which stretched to the Rocky Mountains in the West ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Prince Rupert's memory is well attested in the geography of Canada. The lands of the Hudson's Bay Company , being all the land drained by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay, were known as Rupert's Land from 1670 until 1870.
5 days ago · Parts of northern Minnesota were considered to be in Rupert's Land. The exact definition of the boundary between Minnesota and British North America was not addressed until the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 , [47] which set the U.S.–Canada border at the 49th parallel west of the Lake of the Woods (except for a small chunk of land now ...
Apr 15, 2024 · 2024 Colloquium. Rupert's Land Colloquium. WINNIPEG, MAY 23 to 25, 2024. We are pleased to announce our first live colloquium in six years, to be held in Manitoba from Thursday, May 23 to Saturday, May 25, 2024.
