The Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land was founded in 1875 and is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. The territory covered by the province is roughly coterminous with the western portion of the former Hudson's Bay Company concession of Rupert's Land, as well as the North-Western Territory of British North America. It today consists of the present day provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, as well as the extreme western portion of Ontario and the Nunavik area of Quebec. It also includes all of the territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
At almost 6.5 million square kilometres, it is the largest ecclesiastical province by area in the country, and was even larger in the past. The Anglican Diocese of Moosonee was joined to the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario in 1912; until it formed its own ecclesiastical province in 1914, the five dioceses in British Columbia were part of Rupert's Land; and until 1943 (when it joined the Province of British Columbia), so was the Diocese of Selkirk (afterward, the Anglican Diocese of Yukon).
There are presently ten dioceses in the province:
- Athabasca (Alberta)
- Arctic (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Nunavik (northern Quebec))
- Brandon (Manitoba)
- Calgary (Alberta)
- Edmonton (Alberta)
- Keewatin (Manitoba and northwestern Ontario, north of the 49th parallel)
- Qu'Appelle (Saskatchewan) (corresponding to the pre-1905 District of Assiniboia in the Northwest Territories)
- Rupert's Land (Manitoba)
- Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan)
- Saskatoon (Saskatchewan)
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