Greater Canada: The Past, Present, and Future of the Canadian Northwest : Together with a New Map Especially Prepared for this Volume from the Latest Governmental Surveys |
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acres Adventurers of England aforesaid agents Alberta Assiniboia auriferous average bands Barren Grounds Blackfeet Bow River British Columbia camp Canadian Pacific Railway capital Cariboo caribou cent chiefs and councillors coarse gold Coast Company of Adventurers Company's coureurs coureurs des bois creeks Deputy discovery district dollars Dominion fact factors farming French fur trade Government Governor and Company Governor or Deputy-Governor Greater Canada half-breeds Head Chief heirs and successors Hudson's Bay Company hundred hunt hunters Indian Treaty irrigation Klondike Kootenay lakes land lawful Lord Selkirk Majesty Manitoba ment miles miners mining minor chiefs Montreal nearly never North North-West Company North-West Territories North-Western obtain officers old-time persons placer-miners political possession prairie present profit prospectors Red River reserves rich Riel Saskatchewan settlement settlers Sir George Simpson Slocan South summer thereof thousand trading into Hudson's voyageurs West Western wheat whereof the Governor winter worth writer Yukon
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Page 140 - London ; have, at their own great cost and charges, undertaken an expedition for Hudson's Bay, in the north-west part of America, for the discovery of a new passage into the South Sea, and for the finding...
Page 179 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all state courts having competent jurisdiction, and in any circuit court of the United States...
Page 187 - ... have given, granted, and confirmed, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do give, grant and confirm, unto the said Governor and Company, and their successors, the sole trade and commerce of all those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks and sounds, in whatsoever latitude they...
Page 179 - ... one body corporate and politic, in deed and in name, by the name of " The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay...
Page 179 - States," and shall so continue until the third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and by that name shall be, and are hereby, made able and capable, in law, to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, and retain, to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, of...
Page 187 - And further, we do, by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, make, create and constitute the said Governor and Company, for the time being, and their successors, the true and absolute lords and proprietors of the same territory, limits and places aforesaid...
Page 191 - We strictly charge, command and prohibit for us, our heirs and successors, all the subjects of us, our heirs and successors, of what degree or quality soever they be, that none of them, directly or indirectly, do visit, haunt, frequent or trade, traffic, or adventure, by way of...
Page 188 - Company, and their successors for ever, to be holden of us, our heirs and successors, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in our county of Kent, in free and common soccage...
Page 177 - CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c.
Page 180 - Goods, and other Things returned, in all or any the Voyages or Ships of or for the said Company, and the managing and handling of all other Business, Affairs and Things, belonging to the said Company. AND WE WILL, ordain, and...