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Hudson Bay Territory

under this name is comprised a large proportion of N. W. America, extending from lat. 49° to 70° N., and from Cape Charles, Labrador, to the mouth of the Mackenzie river; area, between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 square miles. Reindeer, muskox, moose-deer or elk, and other kinds of deer, bears, wolves, wolverines, foxes, beavers, otters, raccoons, and other small animals, valuable on account of their skins or flesh, abound. The inhabitants are Esquimaux and Indians. The Europeans settled here who are generally connected with the HUDSON'S BAY COM- PANY, (q. v.). In 1870 this immense territory was ceded to the Dominion of Canada, and now forms the province of British Columbia and Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. See CANADA, DOMINION OF.