The Adjacent Territories Order was a British order in council issued in 1880 to transfer the ownership of most of the remaining lands in British North America ( British Arctic Territories) to the Dominion of Canada. [1] This excluded the Newfoundland Colony, which joined Canada in 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]