Researching Family History

Hudson’s Bay Company Indexes - British Columbia

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 British Columbian family history.  Many types of records exist including contracts, personal accounts, pension records, estate records and census information on Indigenous peoples.

Online

The Archives of Manitoba holds the Hudson's Bay Company Archives collection.  For more information about their collection and the research tools available, please visit this link:  

Microfilm

Our Family History department 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. The films are finding aid microfilms: 20M1, 1M1252 and 1M1253.

Print

Duffus, Maureen. Craigflower Country: a history of View Royal, 1850 – 1950. Library call number: 971.128 CRA 1993

Morin, Gail.  Company Men. [A series of over 20 volumes of genealogies of men who worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company.] Library call number: 929.37127 MOR 2017

Beattie, Judith Hudson, and Helen M. Buss, eds.  Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57. Library call number: 971.102 UND 2003