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Correspondence and general administrative records relating to Hudson's Bay Company lands [textual record]

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Sub-sub-series

Date:

1924

Reference:

R190-71-4-E, RG15-D-II-11-d

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Item ID number:

156399

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Department of the Interior fonds

Dominion Lands Branch

Hudson's Bay Company land records

Correspondence and general administrative records relating to Hudson's Bay Company lands
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Date(s):

1924

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Extent:

0.3 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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Sub-sub-series consists of two volumes of bound correspondence and general administrative records concerning Hudson's Bay Company Lands. These copies were obviously brought together to assistance officials of the department in their day-to-day administration of the Hudson's Bay Company land grant. Since most of the material does not date pass the early 1920s, it is possible that the records were collected by the Department as part of its final negotiations with the company to conclude the original terms of surrender. Once again, under the 1869 terms of surrender, the Company was given a 50-year period in which to dispose of its land grant. A final settlement on all outstanding lands was eventually negotiated with the Company by the Department of the Interior in 1924.

The first volume in this sub-sub-series is entitled "Indexes". It contains a summary of relevant documents concerning the company's land grant. The first section is a synopsis of correspondence between the federal government and the company, dated 1870 to 1918; the second is a copy of the report of the federal government delegates, Cartier and McDougall, to Parliament as published in the Sessional Papers, 1869; the third section is a summary of the Imperial Order in Council, which details the agreement between Canada and the HBC for the transfer of Rupert's Land; the fourth summarizes all pertinent Canadian legislation relative to the transfer; the fifth summarizes all Orders in Council concerning the Company's grant; the sixth and final section contains copies of all the Orders in Council summarized in the previous section.

The second volume in this sub-sub-series is entitled "Correspondence". It contains copies of internal departmental memoranda, and copies of letters between the Hudson's Bay Company and the federal government concerning the settlement of the Company's land grant. In most instances, each copied document indicates the location of the original record.

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The originals of most of these records are generally retained elsewhere in the Department of the Interior fonds, in particular in the Dominion Lands Branch registry sub-series (R190-36-2-E, RG15-D-II-1). An original signed copy of the final settlement on all outstanding negotiated with the Company by the Department of the Interior in 1924 can be found in the Records relating to Dominion lands sub-series of this fonds (R190-23-4-E, RG15-A-2-d, vol. 10).

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RG15-D-II-11-d
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Volume [RG15] 3170

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Date modified:: 2024-06-27