By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

It was at one time the largest landowner in the world, with Rupert's Land having 15 % of North American acreage.

The area was called Rupert's Land after Prince Rupert, the first director of the company and a first cousin of King Charles.

The Rupert's Land territory was ceded to the Kingdom of Great Britain ( so named following the union of Scotland and England in 1707 ) in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.

Under the charter forming the Hudson's Bay Company, the company was required to give two elk skins and two black beaver pelts to the English King, then Charles II, or his heirs, whenever the monarch visits an area that was formerly Rupert's Land.

The Louisiana Territory was vast, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to Rupert's Land in the north, and from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west.

With Canada's acquisition of Rupert's Land, Ontario was interested in clearly defining its borders, especially since some of the new areas it was interested in were rapidly growing.

Canada, a nascent country with a population of 3. 5 million in 1871, lacked the practical means to exercise meaningful de facto control within the de jure political boundaries of the recently acquired Rupert's Land -- building a transcontinental railway was national policy of high order in changing this situation.

Exploration of Western Canada and Rupert's Land with a view to annexation and settlement was a priority of Canada West politicians in the 1850s leading to the Palliser Expedition and the Red River Exploring Expedition of Henry Youle Hind.

In 1818, Father Norbert Provencher founded a mission on the east bank of the Red River in what was then Rupert's Land, building a log church and naming it after St. Boniface.

The election was followed by Rupert's coronation at Cologne on 6 January 1401.

The Hudson's Bay Company had nearly a complete monopoly on trading ( and most governing issues ) in the Columbia District, or Oregon Country as it was referred to by the Americans, and also in Rupert's Land ( western Canada ).

British Columbia also was expanded with the inclusion of the Stikine Territory in 1863, and upon joining Confederation with the addition of the Peace River Block, formerly part of Rupert's Land.

In 1870, when HBC's trade monopoly was abolished, it ceded Rupert's Land — an area of approximately 3. 9 million km² — to Canada as part of the Northwest Territories.

At the same time, the first English colony on what is now mainland Canada, Rupert's Land, was formed, with the first " capital " being at Charles Fort.

* The northern part of the current provinces of Ontario and Quebec was at this time part of Rupert's Land.

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 Hudson's Bay Company and sold to Canada in 1870 ) and the Arctic Islands, which were under direct British control and became a part of Canada in 1880.

Early on 14 June, ignoring Rupert's advice and urged on by Secretary of State Lord Digby, the King was persuaded that any retreat would lower morale and took the former course.

Prior to that time, the territory now included in Badger Township was within the watershed of the Red River Valley and hence technically a part of Rupert's Land and Assiniboia before becoming part of British Canada as a result of the boundary settlement in the Treaty of 1818, a which fixed the international border at the 49th parallel north from the Northwest Angle of Lake of the Woods westward to the Rocky Mountains.

He spent about six months in prison at Oxford, was plundered of all he had at Rupert's relief of Newark ( 22 March 1644 ), was shot through the arm at the taking of Walton Hall, near Wakefield ( 3 June 1644 ), and received very little pay.

Rupert's military employment was complicated by his promises to the Holy Roman Emperor that had led to his release from captivity in 1642, and his ongoing commitment to the Royalist faction in exile.

One of Rupert's notes proffering his affections accidentally fell into the possession of Charles Louis ' wife Charlotte, who believed it was written to her.

Some decades later, in 1869, a rebellion in the Red River area of Rupert's Land erupted under the leadership of Louis Riel, who established in the Red River settlement a provisional government under John Bruce as president, with the intent of negotiating a provincial relationship with the federal government of Canada.

* Prince's metal or Prince Rupert's metal is a type of alpha brass containing 75 % copper and 25 % zinc.

The new Dominion of Canada acquired the territories of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870.

Rupert's Land, the drainage basin of Hudson Bay, the Company's grant.

Rupert's Land would eventually be Canada's largest land purchase in the 1800s.

A parallel may be drawn between HBC's control over Rupert's Land with the trade monopoly and government functions enjoyed by the Honourable East India Company over India during roughly the same period.

The company relinquished its ownership of Rupert's Land under the Rupert's Land Act 1868, enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

* 1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.

If the territory included all the tributaries of the Mississippi on its western bank, the northern reaches of the Purchase extended into the equally ill-defined British possession — Rupert's Land of British North America, now part of Canada.

The name is descriptive, adopted by the British government during the colonial era to indicate where it lay in relation to Rupert's Land.

Between 1840 and 1849, 15, 076 freed slaves, known as " Liberated Africans " were landed at Rupert's Bay on the island, of which number over 5, 000 were dead or died there.

Surviving freed slaves lived at Lemon Valley – originally the quarantine area, later for women and children, Rupert's and High Knoll, and only when numbers became too great were they sent to Cape Town and the British West Indies as labourers.

This proclamation was based on his succession rights to territories held by his childless granduncle, the late Charles XII of Sweden who also had been Grand Duke of Finland.

His birth was hailed as " godgiven " and the people of France bought him the Château de Chambord in celebration of his birth. As a result his granduncle, Louis XVIII, added the title Count de Chambord hence Henry, Count of Chambord, the name by which he is usually known.

He was the granduncle of the previous duke Charles II, and the youngest surviving son of Duke Louis of Savoy and Anne of Cyprus.

Baptised in the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester ( his maternal granduncle ); Princess Alexandra of Kent ( his 1st cousin once removed ); the Earl of Euston ; the Lord Elphinstone ( his 1st cousin once removed ); and Mrs Harold Phillips, and he was named after his paternal grandfather, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.

His father, though a merchant, devoted much of his time to Torah studies ; his grandfather, Mendel Frankfurter, was the founder of the Talmud Torah in Hamburg and unsalaried assistant rabbi of the neighboring congregation of Altona ; and his granduncle, Löb Frankfurter, was the author of several Hebrew works, including Harechasim le-Bik ' ah ( הרכסים לבקעה ), a Torah commentary.

His ancestors included two well-known men of the Greek War of Independence, namely his paternal grandfather and namesake Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), born in Corinth but of ultimately Epirote ancestry, ( he was executed after the fall of Missolonghi ) and his maternal granduncle Iakovos Tombazis ( c. 1782 – 1829 ), a renowned Arvanite from Hydra, who became one of the first admirals of the Greek navy.

Oliver Coogan notes in his Politics and War in Meath 1913 – 23 that Bruton's granduncle was one of the farmers in south Meath who prevented the traditionally Anglo-Irish ascendency hunt from proceeding in the area during the Irish War of Independence.

He was baptised at the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 17 May 1900, by Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and his godparents were: Queen Victoria ( his great-grandmother ); the German Emperor ( his cousin, for whom Prince Albert of Prussia stood proxy ); Princess Henry of Battenberg ( his paternal grandaunt ); the Duchess of Cumberland ( his paternal grandaunt, whose sister, his grandmother the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince George of Greece ( his cousin, for whom Prince Henry's paternal grandfather the Prince of Wales stood proxy ); Princess Carl of Denmark ( his paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Victoria of Wales stood proxy ); Prince Alexander of Teck ( his maternal uncle, for whom Prince Henry's granduncle the Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); and Field Marshal The Earl Roberts ( for whom General Sir Dighton Probyn stood proxy ).

The Princess was baptised in the Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace, on 9 February 1937, and her godparents were: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ( her paternal uncle and aunt ); the Queen of Norway ( her grandaunt ); Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark ( her maternal grandmother ); Princess Olga of Yugoslavia ( her maternal aunt ); the Princess Beatrice ( her paternal great-grandaunt ); the Earl of Athlone ( her paternal granduncle ); and count Karl Theodor of Toerring-Jettenbach ( her maternal uncle by marriage ).

At his christening on 4 August 1942 at the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle, his godparents were: King George VI ( his paternal uncle ); the Queen of the Netherlands ( for whom her son-in-law Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands stood proxy ); the King of Norway ( his granduncle ); the President of the United States of America ( for whom the Duke of Kent stood proxy ) ; the Crown Princess of Greece ( who was not present ); the Duke of Gloucester ( his paternal uncle, who was absent ); the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven ( his grandfather King George V's cousin ); and the Lady Patricia Ramsay ( his grandfather King George V's cousin ).

She was baptised near the end of 1906, and her godparents were: the King of Greece ( her paternal grandfather ); the King of the United Kingdom ( her granduncle ); the Princess of Wales ; Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark ( her paternal uncle ); Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia ( her maternal uncle ); and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( her maternal aunt ).

She was christened Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth at Bagshot Park on 1 May 1886 and her godparents were: Queen Victoria ( her paternal grandmother ); the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( her paternal granduncle, who was represented by her paternal uncle Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein ); the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Oldenburg ( her maternal aunt ); Prince Wilhelm of Prussia ( her cousin, for whom the German Ambassador, Count Hatzfeldt, stood proxy ); Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein ( her paternal aunt ); and Prince Albert of Prussia ( her cousin, for whom her maternal uncle the Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg stood proxy ).

Several years later, Bingyi's granduncle Emperor Zhao found out that Bingyi was alive, and ordered that the Ministry of Imperial Clan Affairs take over the duty for caring for Bingyi.

He was briefly deposed by his granduncle Sima Lun, who usurped the throne himself, in 301, but later that year was restored to the throne and continued to be the emperor until 307, when he was poisoned, likely by the regent Sima Yue.

In 1703 Yinreng's granduncle Songgotu was found guilty of attempting to murder the Kangxi Emperor, along with a series of corruption charges, and was imprisoned and died shortly afterwards.

Prince of Anhua was Zhengde's great-granduncle, while Prince of Ning was his granduncle.

He was subsequently demoted to be the assistant to Emperor Xianzong's granduncle Li Lian ( 李連 ) the Prince of En, and he was denied further access to the emperor's presence.