Deed of Surrender
| Statutory Instrument | |
| Citation | RSC 1985, App. II, No. 9 |
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| Territorial extent | |
| Dates | |
| Made | June 23, 1870 |
| Commencement | July 15, 1870 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amends | Royal Charter for Incorporating the Hudson's Bay Company, Granted by His Majesty King Charles the Second, In the Twenty-second Year of his Reign, A.D. 1670 |
| Made under | Constitution Act, 1867 |
| Relates to | Rupert's Land Act 1868 |
Status: Current legislation | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
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The Deed of Surrender or Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory Order is an 1870 British order in council that transferred ownership of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the United Kingdom to the newly created Dominion of Canada. The deed ended just over 200 years of Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) control over Rupert's Land and began western Canadian expansion. Often confused with the Rupert's Land Act 1868, the deed is different as the act only expressed that the United Kingdom and Canada permitted the transfer, but did not settle on the details of exchange with HBC, which were outlined in the Deed of Surrender.
Canada before and after receiving Rupert's Land and North-West Territory; the Province of Manitoba was created simultaneously