CRCJ 1000 Lecture 3: Criminology Lecture Notes January 21.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Mohonogan

Document Summary

Deciphering the nature of the sovereign claims to rupert"s land has been, and still is, a perplexing task. At different times in the nineteenth century, it was an issue that variously affected settlers, natives and metis, lawyers, colonial administrators, british parliamentarians, us politicians, and a number of competing trading companies, railway magnates, and speculators. The nineteenth-century pandemic of confusion surrounding the jurisdiction, lands, and subjects of the hbc seems (if anything) to encourage an adjustment of the way we conceptualize the company"s historical presence in rupert"s land I submit that the hbc was, in fact, a company-state, whose settlements were managed by its committee of. Ad-venturers in london as well as by the (often conflicting) orders and individual discretion of its bayside governors. The crown, by contrast, beyond granting and extending the company"s charter at home, had barely a part to play in the operation It was up to the hbc to establish itself in.