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Following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company, Manitoba was established as a province of Canada.
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Rupert's Land
Territory in British North America (1670–1870)
Rupert's Land, or Prince Rupert's Land, was a territory in British America based on the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The right to "sole trade and commerce" over Rupert's Land was granted to Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), based at York Factory, effectively giving that company a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hudson's Bay Company
Canadian retail business group and former fur trading business
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) is a Canadian holding company of department stores and commercial property. It is the oldest corporation in North America, founded in 1670 and liquidated in 2025, and was headquartered in Toronto and New York City. Its intellectual property is…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Manitoba
Province of Canada
Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,342,153 as of 2021. Manitoba has a widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the north to dense…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Provinces and territories of Canada
Top-level subdivisions of Canada
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)