There is an irony in that statement. The largest single real estate transaction that I am aware of was the purchase of Prince Rupert's land by Canada from the

There is an irony in that statement. The largest single real estate transaction that I am aware of was the purchase of Prince Rupert's land by Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870. For comparison, it was roughly twice the size of the Louisiana Purchase. (It was actually not exactly a sale, but close enough. Canada paid Hudson's Bay to surrender its charter to England, that then assigned the land, free of said charter, to Canada.)