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 ).

Areas once belonging to Rupert's Land include all of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, northern parts of Ontario and Quebec, as well as parts of Minnesota and North Dakota and very small parts of Montana and South Dakota.

Since most of the better government posts were already taken, Rupert's employment was limited, although Charles rewarded him with the second highest pension he had granted, £ 4, 000 a year.

The first half of the book relates Rupert's most dramatic incidents as Kensingtowe, including an ongoing " war " with his Housemaster, the so-called " Carpet Slippers ", receiving beatings and punishments, learning to do what is right, and his greatest hour-winning the school relay swimming race, only to be disqualified, then made a prefect on account of his maturity in dealing with the disappointment.

The news that Penny died on the Western Front and that their house captain, their school's most promising cricketer ( a sure bet for a future England side ) and Rupert's relay-team captain all died in April in Gallipoli depresses Edgar and Rupert somewhat.

" This library became, perhaps, the most famous in the whole extent of Rupert's Land.

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

One famous incident during Rupert's early years was the 1923 shooting, at the hotel, of a wealthy young Egyptian, Prince Fahmy Bey, by his French wife, Marguerite.

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

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

Rupert's land became the largest land purchase in Canada's history.

Morton ( 1962 ) reviews the pressures at work on that part of Rupert's Land where Winnipeg now stands, a decade before its incorporation into Canada.

Recent work on Rupert's role as a commander has also highlighted the progress the prince made in formulating the way that orders were given to the British fleet.

In order to continue his work re-settling Scottish farmers, Selkirk asked the British government for a land grant in the Red River Valley, a part of Rupert's Land.

After reaching a peak of about 18, 000 in the early 1990s, Prince Rupert's population began to decline as people left in search of work.

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.

Other portions of Rupert's Land were added to the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, extending the provinces northward from their previous narrow band around the St. Lawrence and lower Great Lakes.

In North America, France ceded to Great Britain its claims to the Hudson's Bay Company territories in Rupert's Land, Newfoundland and Acadia.

Results in Spanish, French and Bavarian recognition of Great Britain's sovereignty over Gibraltar, Minorca, Rupert's Land, Newfoundland, Acadia and Saint Kitts.

In the opinion of the author of Great Rebellion in the 1911 Britannica Encyclopaedia, Hampden's advice was undoubtedly premature because the manoeuvers that Parliamentary soldiers executed during the Battle of Worcester was not within the power of the Parliamentarians of 1642, and in Napoleon's words: " one only manoeuvres around a fixed point ", and the city levies at that time were certainly not, vis-à-vis Rupert's cavalry, a fixed point.

c. 105 ) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( as it then was ), authorizing the transfer of Rupert's Land from the control of the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada.

Pro-Royalist publications ultimately produced parodies of these, including one which listed Rupert's dog as being a " Lapland Lady " transformed into a white dog ; Boye was able, apparently, to find hidden treasure, possessed invulnerability to attack, could catch bullets fired at Rupert in his mouth, and could prophesy as well as the 16th-century soothsayer, Mother Shipton.

He produced a few stylish prints in the technique, mostly interpretations of existing paintings, and introduced the form to England after the Restoration, though it was Wallerant Vaillant, Rupert's artistic assistant or tutor, who first popularised the process and exploited it commercially.

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

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

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 area once known as Rupert's Land is now mainly a part of Canada, but a small portion is now in the United States of America.

The building is often referred to as " Rupert's Barn " because Prince Rupert of the Rhine is said to have stationed part of his army in the barn before the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644 during the English Civil War.

Turning back to regroup, repair and re-equip in early 1652, Rupert's reduced force moored at Cape Blanc, an island near what is now Mauritania.

As a child, Giles dreamed of being either " a fighter pilot or possibly a grocer ", but he soon learned that being a Watcher is a calling, much as being a Slayer is, and Rupert's father explained his destiny to him when he was ten years old ( revealed in " Never Kill a Boy on the First Date ").

In the context of shifting tribal politics due to the spread of horses and guns, the Niitsitapi initially tried to increase their trade with the HBC traders in Rupert's Land whilst blocking access to the HBC by neighboring peoples to the West, however the HBC trade eventually reached into what is now inland British Columbia.

The entire duration of the novel up to that point is a romantic ode to their friendship-painting Rupert's love for Edgar in classical hues as Orestes who loved Pylades.

Named for where it lay in relation to Rupert's Land, the territory at its greatest extent covered what is now Yukon, mainland Northwest Territories, northwestern mainland Nunavut, northwestern Saskatchewan, northern Alberta and northern British Columbia.

The Pattullo Bridge is named in his honour as well as Prince Rupert's Pattullo Park.

Rupert's stand-up routine is well received.

A number of scenes in the film — Rupert and Jerry in the restaurant, Jerry meeting Rupert after having listened to his tape and calling him a genius, Rupert getting married " live " on Jerry's show — exist solely in Rupert's imagination, and Bordwell suggested that some viewers would think the final sequence is another fantasy.

Underwritten by a group of English merchants, HBC is granted trade rights over Rupert's Land — i. e., all territory draining into Hudson Bay ( May 2 ).

The district is also the location of the team's crest image, an old bridewell known as Prince Rupert's Tower.

It is also one of the 8 districts ( administrative divisions ) of the island and stretches north along the coast including James Bay, Rupert's Bay and Banks Valley Bay, as well as slightly inland along James Valley.

A demonstration of glass toughening is provided by Prince Rupert's Drop.

It is home to the Institute for Anglican Ministry, a ministry of the Diocese of Rupert's Land that seeks to train Anglican lay people.

Rupert's eldest son, Johann Rupert, is now the CEO of Richemont and chairman of Remgro.

The Rupert family is also deeply involved in the South African wine and liquor industry, owning the L ' ormarins and La Motte Wine Estates and having a stake in Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons, the wine-making partnership between the Rupert and Rothschild families ( at the time of his death due to a car crash in 2001, Rupert's youngest son, Anthonij, was head of Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons.