An interesting feature of the arms....
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Posted by: Marc-André Laverdière
Created on: May 12 2017 at 16:57
An interesting feature of the arms granted to the Hudson Bay Company is a Cap of Maintenance. It used to be reserved for barons in the days of feudal tenure.
I could not find an explanation for it, but I postulate that it had to do with the fact that the Company was in charge of large parts of (mostly unsettled) Canada at the time. I suppose that this situation made it a tenant in capite of Crown land.
I could not find an explanation for it, but I postulate that it had to do with the fact that the Company was in charge of large parts of (mostly unsettled) Canada at the time. I suppose that this situation made it a tenant in capite of Crown land.
http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=2871&ProjectElementID=10112
Hudson's Bay Company [Civil Institution]
![](http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/ProjectPics/6-672-HudsonsBayCompany-Arms.jpg)
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