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    Rupert's Land (French: Terre de Rupert), or Prince Rupert's Land (French: Terre du Prince Rupert), was a territory in British North America which comprised...
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    Palatinate-Simmern, Duke of Cumberland. A Dialogue or, Rather a Parley betweene Prince Ruperts Dogge whose name is Puddle, and Tobies Dog whose name is Pepper &c. (1643)...
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    The Rupert's Land Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 105) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then was), authorizing...
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  • The Diocese of Rupert's Land is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of the Northern Lights of the Anglican Church of Canada. It is named for the...
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  • Rupert's Land is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Jonathan Tammuz and released in 1998. The film stars Samuel West and Ian Tracey as Rupert and Dale...
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    right of "sole trade and commerce" over an expansive area of land known as Rupert's Land, comprising much of the Hudson Bay drainage basin. This right...
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    Surrender or Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory Order is an 1870 British order in council that transferred ownership of Rupert's Land and the North-Western...
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    created a territory named Rupert's Land, which was placed under the administration of the Hudson's Bay Company. Rupert's Land, which included all of present-day...
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    Indian Reserve Newfoundland North-Western Territory Nova Scotia Quebec Rupert's Land (the territory of the Hudson's Bay Company) St. John's Island (later...
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    over the territory then called Rupert's Land, assigned plots of land to European settlers. The allocation of Red River land caused conflict with those already...
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  • Virginia, a town in Greenbrier County Ruperts, Saint Helena, a village in Jamestown District, Saint Helena Rupert, a teddy bear owned by cartoon character...
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    to provide clarity on the mechanisms and timeline of the transfer of Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) back...
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    the colonial era to indicate where it lay in relation to the rest of Rupert's Land. It has been shortened from North-Western Territory and then North-West...
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    the English taking possession of the Hudson's Bay watershed, forming Rupert's Land under the administration of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670. The post...
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    mostly part of Rupert's Land under the nominal control of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) from 1670 to 1869, who regarded Rupert's Land as their proprietary...
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  • of Rupert's Land by King Charles II of England; this vast territory was greater than one third the area of Canada today. Following the Rupert's Land Act...
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  • passed the Rupert's Land Act that saw most of its land ownership transferred to the Dominion of Canada. After Canada acquired the HBC's land in 1870, the...
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    by an Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of the title role in Rupert's Land (1998). In 2010, he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for...
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    royal charter, the Hudson's Bay Company established the territory of Rupert's Land in the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The English also established or conquered...
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  • Province of the Northern Lights, founded in 1875 as the Province of Rupert's Land, forms one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of...
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    Canadian province of Manitoba. It had earlier been a territory called Rupert's Land and been under control of the Hudson's Bay Company before it was sold...
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    America extant until 1870 and named for where it lay in relation to Rupert's Land. Due to the lack of development, exploration, and cartographic limits...
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    French colonial territory east of the Mississippi River and south of Rupert's Land (save Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which France kept) was ceded to Great...
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    the case since 1870. In 1870 the Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory Order effected the admission of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory...
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    Columbia in 1866. The remainder of modern-day Canada was made up of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory (both of which were controlled by the...
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  • Blackie, chronicling the North American fur trade in colonial Canada/Rupert's Land, sometime in the late 1700s or early 1800s. The series is co-produced...
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    being the Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842. The British ceded all of Rupert's Land south of the 49th parallel and east of the Continental Divide, including...
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  • three Leo Award nominations, for Best Actress in a Film in 1998 for Rupert's Land, Best Actress in a Dramatic Series in 1998 for Dead Man's Gun, and Best...
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    Government purchased Rupert's Land. Northern Alberta was included in the North-Western Territory until 1870, when it and Rupert's land became Canada's North-West...
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    January 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2016. "" Blog Archive " Statement from the Ruperts Land House of Bishops". 19 January 2014. Archived from the original on 19...
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