See also: Prince Rupert's Land
- 1670, 1900  And further we will and grant by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, unto the said Governor and Company, and their successors . . . that the said land be from henceforth reckoned and reputed as one of our plantations or colonies in America, called "Rupert's Land."
- 1748  One would have imagined, that after this considerable Settlements suitable to the Design of the Charter should have been made and Rupert's Land, for so his Majesty directs the new Plantation to be called, should by this Time have become none of the least considerable Colonies in America.
- 1862  It is too late in the day for toryism--and foreign readers will understand what Rupert's Land toryism means--too late, we say, for it to sneer.
- 1966  When the purchase of Rupert's Land was completed, the Canadian Government continued the investigation of the region in order to decide the route of the railway and to encourage settlement.