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Title

Sub-series consists of

5 lower level description(s)

Arrangement structure

Sub-series part of

Dominion Lands Branch [textual record, cartographic material] (R190-35-0-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Registres des terres de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson [document textuel (quelque microforme)]

Date(s)

1835-1930, microfilmed [ca. 1948-1970]

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Sub-series consists of land records related to the Hudson's Bay Company. When Rupert's Land was surrendered to the Dominion of Canada on 15 July, 1869, the Hudson's Bay Company received œ300,000, certain lands around its 97 trading posts, and one twentieth of all the lands bounded "on the south by the United States boundary, on the west by the Rocky Mountains, on the north by the north branch of the Saskatchewan River, on the east by Lake Winnipeg, Lake of the Woods and the waters connecting them". In more practical terms, this meant that sections eight and twenty-six in every fifth township (namely, townships five, ten, fifteen, etc.) and sections eight and the south half and the northwest quarter of section twenty-six in all the other townships were reserved for the exclusive use of the Company (Vic., c. 20, s. 44, 1908). These lands, which amounted to some 2.8 million hectares, were known as Hudson's Bay Company Lands. The Company was given a 50-year period, in which it would be free to dispose of these lands, at its pleasure.

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Terms of use

Copyright belongs to the Crown.

Additional information

Source

Government

MIKAN no.

156389