Native rights and the boundaries of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory

Type
Book
Authors
Kent McNeil ( McNeil, Kent )
 
ISBN 10
0888801114 
ISBN 13
9780888801111 
Category
General Library Collection  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1982 
Pages
67 
Subject
Indigenous peoples -- Canadian Northwest -- Claims 
Abstract
"An attempt to define the exact boundaries of Rupert's Land and the North-western Territory."--WorldCat.org. 
Description
67 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. 
Biblio Notes
Contents:
Preface --
I. Introduction --
II. The North-Western Territory --
III. Rupert's Land: The Royal Charter of 1670 --
A. The extent of the grant --
B. Lands excluded from the grant --
IV. Rival claims by Britain and France to Hudson Bay, 1670-1713 --
A. The Treaty of Ryswick, 1697 --
B. The Treaty of Utrecht, 1713 --
V. The Ontario boundaries dispute --
A. The Arbitration Award of 1878 --
B. The Ontario Boundaries case, 1884 --
C. The Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 --
VI. Manitoba and the Red River Settlement --
VII. Determining the boundaries of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory --
A. West of Ontario --
B. In the North --
C. East of Hudson Bay --
VIII. The Rupert's Land Act, 1868 --
IX. Conclusion --
Appendices --
A. Award of the Arbitrators, August 3, 1878 --
B. Imperial Order in Council of August 11, 1884 --
C. Imperial Order in Council of August 24, 1791 --
D. Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 --
Maps --
1. Rupert's Land based on the Hudson drainage basin --
2. Boundaries of Virginia on a literal interpretation of the Royal Charter of 1609 --
3. Boundaries between British and French territory proposed in 1719 --
4. Boundaries of Quebec in 1898 and 1927 --
5. Portion of map used in the Ontario Boundaries Case, 1884.  
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