Hudson’s Bay Company Archives

 

The Hudson’s Bay Company Archives contains records for those who were connected to the fur trade with the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Northwest Company. The online finding aids enable one to learn about the records that are available through Interlibrary Loan. The maps and the post journals, particularly the lists of servants, and the biographical sheets are valuable to the genealogists.

Hudson’s Bay Company Archives (HBCA)
200 Vaughan Street
Winnipeg, MB  R3C 1T5
Tel: (204) 945-4949    Fax: (204) 948-3236
E-mail:  hbca@gov.mb.ca

Further Reading

• Briggs, Elizabeth and Ann Morton. Biographical Resources at the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives. Volume 1, 1996, Volume 2, 2003.
  Winnipeg: Westgarth Publishers.
• Briggs, Elizabeth. Handbook for Reading & Interpreting Old Documents: with examples from The Hudson’s Bay Company Archives.
  Winnipeg: Manitoba Genealogical Society, 1992.