# Transfer of territory from one country to another **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 10, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transfer-of-territory-from-one-country-to-another/960848 "2022-03-10T21:15:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 46
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transfer-of-territory-from-one-country-to-another/960848/46 "2022-04-18T06:39:54Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > Rupert’s Land was not sold to Canada. The Hudson’s Bay Company surrendered its trade monopoly charter back to the British Crown, the Crown transferred jurisdiction of the territory to its colony of Canada, and Canada paid compensation to the HBC for the surrender of their charter. On doing a search, it turns out I’d asked the [question about countries selling land](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countries-purchasing-land/838750) a few years ago and had forgotten that I had. However, no one in that thread contributed the wiki-list that **hibernicus** did in this thread, so it was good I asked again. Rupert’s Land was given as such a sale in that thread and we argued about it. I’m sure that’s why I mentioned it in my post. I may not have remembered the thread, but I remembered the arguement to some extent. Anyway, argue with the people in that thread who thought it was a sale of sovereignty. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transfer-of-territory-from-one-country-to-another/960848)._