GIFTS TO KING
j Terms of old charter / ELK HEADS AND BEAVER SKINS WINNIPEG, May 24 tinder the terms of a charter granted V Charles 11., Patrick Ashley, governbr of the Hudson's Bay Company, to-day knelt before the King and humbly presented to him two massive elk heads and two glistening black leaver skins. The picturesque ceremony, which the Queen witnessed, took place before the Bol ° remaining gate of upper Fort an '3'> once a great fur trade centre. Tinder the charter granted in IG7O *° Prince Rupert as governor, "Tho company of adventurers of England fading into Hudson's Bay" was retired "to yield and pay yearly two e ks and two black beavers whensoand as often as wee or our heircs successors shall happen to enter into the countrye's tcrritorves hereby granted." The obligation was first met in 1927 Men the then Prince of Wales visited vanada.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23356, 26 May 1939, Page 13
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