Rupert's Land
Fur trade domain
Rupert's Land was a vast territory in British North America granted to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670, named for Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
It encompassed the entire drainage basin of Hudson Bay—roughly a third of present-day Canada.
The company held trading rights there for two centuries until the land was transferred to the new Dominion of Canada in 1870.
Processed rodent hides
- trappersThose who snare wildlife
- trading postsFrontier merchandise exchange stations
- barterDirect goods-for-goods exchange
- muskratSemiaquatic North American rodent
mink · pemmican · canoes · birchbark · Métis · coureurs des bois · provisioning · pelts
Colonial Canadian fur merchant
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- cessionFormal transfer of territory
imperial · settler · expansion · administration · governance · assimilation · occupation · missionary
Historic fur-trade boatmen
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- mappingDiagram of correspondences
- cartographyCreating geographic representations
- surveySystematic data collection
wilderness · frontier · uncharted · traverse · trek · pathfinder · canoe routes · portage
Discussion seeking mutual accord
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- agreementShared position between parties
- CreeAlgonquian people of Canada
- treaty rightsPact-secured legal entitlements
beaver pelts
Processed rodent hides
- trappersThose who snare wildlife
- trading postsFrontier merchandise exchange stations
- barterDirect goods-for-goods exchange
muskrat · mink · pemmican · canoes · birchbark · Métis · coureurs des bois · provisioning · pelts · rendezvous
Hudson's Bay Company
Colonial Canadian fur merchant
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
cession · imperial · settler · expansion · administration · governance · assimilation · occupation · missionary · Eurocentric
voyageurs
Historic fur-trade boatmen
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- mappingDiagram of correspondences
- cartographyCreating geographic representations
survey · wilderness · frontier · uncharted · traverse · trek · pathfinder · canoe routes · portage · overland
negotiation
Discussion seeking mutual accord
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- agreementShared position between parties
- CreeAlgonquian people of Canada
- Canadian HistoryConfederation, colonial era, colonial government, self-government, constitutional debates
- Alberta HistoryEdmonton, Calgary, Banff, homesteaders, settlers
- Canadian FrontierBritish Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon
- fur tradebeaver pelts, pelts, furs, mink, sable
- Manitoba HistoryManitoba, Winnipeg, Red River, Metis, Hudson's Bay Company
- Canadian ExplorationNorthwest Passage, Hudson Bay, Jacques Cartier, John Cabot, Henry Hudson
Rupert's LandThirteen Colonies
British North American territories
New France · Louisiana Territory · Massachusetts Bay Colony · New England · Atlantic Canada
Rupert's LandThirteen Colonies
British North American territories
Massachusetts Bay Colony · settler colony · penal colony · British India
land, lands, landscape, landed, landowner, landless, landholding, Rupert