| RUPERTS | ___ Land (Vast territory controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company from 1670 to 1870) |
| RUPERTSLAND | Canadian territory originally held by the Hudson's Bay Company that comprised the drainage basin of Hudson Bay (7,4) |
| LAND | The former territories in Canada granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 (7,4) |
| MANITOBA | Province created after the Hudson's Bay Company surrendered a 200-year-old charter to the British Cr |
| PIERREESPRIT | French explorer associated with the founding of the hudson's bay company, ___-___ Radisson (b.1636 - d.1710) |
| GEOMETRICPRINT | Pom-pommed winterwear item in the hudson's bay company collection, Wool ___ ___ Tuque |
| OUTPOST | Remote station as for the Hudson's Bay Company historically |
| DUCHY | Territory controlled by a duke, surviving in England in Lancaster and Cornwall (5) |
| DOMAIN | An area or territory controlled by a particular ruler or government (6) |
| AWHAINSWORTH | Made-in-england for Canada... John Atkinson, the manufacturer of the hudson's Bay iconic Point Blank |
| VICTORHUGO | Les Miserables novelist who was exiled from France from 1855 to 1870: 2 wds. |
| DEPENDENCY | Territory controlled by a mother-country (10) |
| EMIRATE | Territory controlled by an emir (7) |
| FORTRELIANCE | ___ ___ national historic Site of Canada (hudson's bay company installation built in 1833 in the northwest Territories) |
| OMANEMPIRE | Vast territory ruled over by Muscat's land? |
| PAPALSTATES | Area ruled by the Pope up to 1870 |
| SHOTPUT | Briton John Stone broke the world record four times from 1867 to 1870 in what sports field event? (4,3) |
| CAMBRIDGE | 1629 agreement in which English stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company pledged to resettle in New England |
| TRADINGPOSTS | Hudson's Bay company operations in canada's early history: 2 wds. |
| CONGREVE | William, dramatist born in 1670 noted for his play The Way Of The World (8) |
