Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-05-05
Amazing Grants j al d Ierfitoy Is.
- Royal Fayorites.
ALloF7 CANADA ONCE AGlH
u WasssHandeds Over Bodily BY James
|. = Lord Stirling, Who Didn't Know
EEnough&to Keep lt----The Hudson Bay
Company,s Fafmous@P Present. - ST.


Il example, fifty yearsafter 1t had been.
sold2for something like $25 was pre-
sented with other lands to theSADukes Of
York by his brother. the king. and&theI
name of the city is a witness this day
to that transaction. TheSduke granted
New Jersey to somebody else, andAa5
few years before the king had carved
out Maryland for Lord Baltimore.
PENNSYLVANIA was given to William.
Penn, the Quaker who founded the
state, in payment, it is said. OF a debt
that Charles II. owed Penn'ssfather,s
and the same monarch gave both North
and South Carolina tt eight London
gentlemen who Stayed at home, called
themselves the lords proprietors' and
lived on the rents until the people re-
fused to pay any more and George II.
took over the colonies.
The story Of Colonel Talbot at thesbe-
ginning of the last century is one OF
the r0mances of Canadian history.
The colonel went out In 1893 as an aid
de-camp to the governor. and the
founding of a colony became the ruling
passion Of his life. He was given 1O0,-
coo acres, which grew later to 65O,OOO,
on condition that he place a settler on
every 200 acres. Today this territory
is occupied by some, of the most flour
ishing towns in the Dominion, and at
the beginning Of Queen Victoria's reign
Colonel Talbot, who was then still liv-
ing. was t~heSrecognized chief Of TWEEN
ty-eight towns, all of which had been
given to him years before as unoccu-9
pied land.
Prince Edward Island, covering 1900
square miles and embracing such
fourishing towns as Georgetown, Char
lottetown and PrincetoWn.swas given
away in 1897 to absentee proprietors
and was bought back again on the or
%ganization of the Dominion Of Cana.
da for 100000. The Canadian COM
pany, founded in 1926, received a grant
OF 100000 acres, and bought 2,33OO.OOOs
more at the rate Of half a crown an
acre.
The mention Of the Hudson's Bay
company recalls what is probably the
most famous gift Of territory in hs-
tory. In 1910 Charles II. gave Prince
Rupert by royal charter territory 200
or 800 miles wide around the eastern
and southern shores OF Hudson's bay.
in addition to a vast empire OF forest
and prairie. "Rupert's Land" as the
territory was called, ultimately stretch
ed across Canada, from the Atlantic
end Of Hudson's strait to the shores
Of the Pacific. As rent for this ter
ritory, covering 100000 square miles,
the company paid to the king each
year two -elks and two black bea-
verss' ss.E
Something I've forty years ago the
Canadian confederation took over the
company's monopoly for 100000, but
the company retained a twentieth part
Of its lands. The original capital OF
the company was E10,5OO, and in TWO
centuries its income from furs was
f2O,OOO.OOO.
But the most amazing gift ever made
since the world began was surely that
made BY James 1. to Lord Stirling. the
poet, who was then his favorite. On
Sept: 81. 1921, King James, who must
have been extraordinarily deficient I'll
geography, made Lord Stirling. then
Sir William Alexander, a present Of
the whole Of Canada. The gift, which
included Nova Scotia and Newfound-
land, was confirmed by Charles 4, and
the poet was so moved by the high
honor that he received that he pub
nshed can Encouragement to Colo
Mes" a work that attained three edi-
lions: The gift became the subject OF
interesting legal proceedings, and Can
ada once. more became the property. of
the crown.
The city Of Liverpool was given
away by william the Conqueror and
again BY Henry II, who bestowed it
on s.the keeper Of the castle and pris-a
y Of Lancaster. . King John bought
the site from this keeper and founded
tho city. Henry III. leased. ali the
crown revenues and royal customs of.
Liverpool to the Earl of Chester Tor
40 year. and Tho town changer
hands several times betweenSthe reagns.
Of HenryM. and Ohsries stuart
That unhappy monarch. being s. Z
stete Of impecuniostty. o6sfedbhstowv
.forsaIe, a1dsst Sw1lsssI. pIdn1ftchaskssdsbyji zone
London merchants, who hs16s2 sotd
stheScrown rights for 6l5o Eorty.ysau
afterward the rights were. purchased.
by the corporation.
bombay, the earliest settlement of.
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