Adjacent Territories Order

The Adjacent Territories Order was a British order in council issued on 31 July 1880 to transfer the ownership of most of the remaining lands in British North America (British Arctic Territories) to the Dominion of Canada from 1 September the same year.^[1] This excluded the Newfoundland Colony, which joined Canada in March 1949.^[2]

The lands transferred were assigned to the North-West Territories and consolidated the Arctic region with land ceded from the Hudson's Bay Company (North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land).^[3]