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Prince Rupert's Land 
the territory granted by charter in 1670 to the Hudson's Bay Company and surrendered to the Government of Canada in 1870 for a compensation of £300,000, understood as comprising all land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay and so named because Prince Rupert was first governor of the Company.
See also: Rupert's Land
- 1844 By Joseph Howse, Esq. F.R.G.S. and resident twenty years in Prince Rupert's Land, in the service of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company.
- 1930 Once he had gone into Canada, a distant country in the East ruled by the same soverign who ruled Prince Rupert's Land, Queen Victoria, superior in authority even to the Governor of the Hudson Bay.
- 1844 By Joseph Howse, Esq. F.R.G.S. and resident twenty years in Prince Rupert's Land, in the service of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company.