Notifications to the Hudson's Bay Company [textual records (some microform)] Archives / Collections and Fonds

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Notifications to the Hudson's Bay Company [textual records (some microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-sub-series

Context of this record:

Department of the Interior fonds

Dominion Lands Branch

Hudson's Bay Company land records

Notifications to the Hudson's Bay Company
Finding aid

Finding aid no. 15-37 Finding aid 15-37 is a typed file list referring to aperture card book nos. 40 and 41. The finding aid is available as a PDF attached to this record. (Electronic) (90: Open) PDF
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/15-37_156393_books40-41_open.pdf
Record information

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Notifications to the Hudson's Bay Company [textual records (some microform)]

Date:

1873-1911, microfilmed [ca. 1948-1970]

Reference:

R190-68-4-E, RG15-D-II-11-a

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

156393

Date(s):

1873-1911, microfilmed [ca. 1948-1970]

Bilingual equivalent:

See French record description

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

ca. 900 aperture cards.
0.20 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

Sub-sub-series consists of Notifications to the Hudson's Bay Company. Letters patent were generally not issued by the Dominion government to the Hudson's Bay Company for lands granted in the North-West Territories under the terms of surrender. Under the North-West Territories Land Titles Act (57-58 Victoria, c. 28, 1894), the Minister of the Interior was only required to notify the registrar of the North-West Territories that certain lands had been granted to the Company. These Notifications were to be "...accepted by the registrar as equivalent to letters patent in favour of the company for the lands falling to them in such a township or part of a township. This obviates much of the clerical labour connected with the issuing of patents" (Canada. Department of the Interior. Annual Report of the Department of the Interior for the Year 1895, Ottawa, 1896, pg. xiv). Although not expressly stated, the Notifications are deemed to have operated as a conveyance of both surface and under rights, under the interpretation handed down by the Deputy Minister of the Department of Justice. The intent was prescribed in Section 5 of the Deed of Surrender to the Crown from the Governor of Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson Bay, dated 19 November, 1869, covering Rupert's Land and the North-West Territory.

This sub-sub-series includes notifications on grant numbers 7 to 2727, dated from 16 March 1873 to 30 May, 1911.

This sub-sub-series also contains aperture cards which consist of images of original registers. Each aperture card consists of a microfiche image held in a paper index card. In most cases each image is one page of the original register. The registers are also known as RG15 aperture card books 40 and 41. There are two copies of these aperture card books. They serve as an index to the notifications. Each entry in the books give the grant number, number of acres granted, the land description, the date of the transfer, and general administrative remarks.

Additional information:

Source of title:

Title is based on the contents of the sub-sub-series.

Custodial history:

The aperture cards in this sub-sub-series were created by a successor to the Department of the Interior sometime between 1948 and 1970. They were copied from original registers and ledgers and the originals were then destroyed. The aperture cards were then transferred to the National Archives in the early 1970s.

RG15 Aperture Card books were available in the LAC reference room until January 2023.

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Source:

Government

Former archival reference no.:

RG15-D-II-11-a

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