Rupert's Land

British  

noun

1. (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay

---

Example Sentences

Fearing the loss of their land and culture under the Dominion’s English-speaking Protestant majority, many Métis united under the leadership of Louis Riel to oppose the Canadian government’s attempts to survey Rupert’s Land.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Two years later, the Dominion purchased the territory of Rupert’s Land from the Hudson’s Bay Company for the railroad.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The only other country to engage in this sort of transaction has been Canada, which bought Rupert’s Land from the Hudson Bay Company in 1868.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2019

During all the six years that I spent in Rupert’s Land I was “without God.”

From Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Within the next few years their forts grew to outnumber those of the older company, being scattered about in Prince Rupert’s Land, and even across the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia.

From The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada by Graydon, William Murray