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Hudson’s Bay Company Indexes - Quebec
The Hudson’s Bay Company was active in the development of the western provinces since its establishment in 1670. These records can be useful to research early Quebec genealogy. Many types of records exist including contracts, personal accounts, pension records, estate records and census information on some First Nations peoples.
Online
There is an easy-to-use guide to the HBC records on the Internet at: http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/resource/filmlist.html
Morin, Gail. Company Men. A series of over 30 volumes of genealogies of men who worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company. Library call number: 929.37127 MOR 2017
Microfilm
Cloverdale library has three Hudson’s Bay Company record indexes on microfilm, that act as detailed finding aids to what’s available at the Hudson Bay Archives in Manitoba. Many of these records can be ordered by interlibrary loan.