# Hudson's Bay Company **Domain:** Corporate History / Imperial Territory / Canada **Doc Type:** Institution and Historical Reference Node **Maturity:** Developed **Concept Hub:** [[wiki/Crown Topology|Crown Topology]] ## Definition **The Hudson's Bay Company was incorporated by royal charter in 1670 and received commercial and territorial rights over the vast watershed draining into Hudson Bay, known as [[wiki/Rupert's Land|Rupert's Land]].** It joined corporate organization, trade monopoly, imperial authority, and territorial administration. ## Territorial Transfer In 1870 Rupert's Land was transferred into the new Canadian federation. The transfer is part of the territorial history from which the Prairie provinces, including Alberta, later emerged. [[articles/war with empire/Imperial Financial Influence Operations — Cutting the Head off the Snake|Imperial Financial Influence Operations]] invokes this chain to show that Alberta's resource and constitutional disputes sit inside a specific history of royal grant, corporate territory, federal transfer, and delayed provincial control over lands and resources. ## Boundary Historical corporate-territorial origin does not make modern Alberta a colony as a factual legal category. The relevant contemporary mechanisms are better analyzed through [[wiki/Administered Periphery|administered periphery]] and [[wiki/Resource Sovereignty|resource sovereignty]]. ## See Also [[wiki/Useful Imperial Inheritance|Useful Imperial Inheritance]] · [[wiki/Imperial-Security Architecture|Imperial-Security Architecture]] · [[wiki/Reservation and Disallowance|Reservation and Disallowance]] · [[wiki/Crown Realm|Crown Realm]]