Some of Hudson’s Bay Company Archives to be digitized

I need a bunch of years to read through all the microfilmed and manuscript records of the legendary Hudson’s Bay Company. I can view some at places I regularly research and need to go to Winnipeg to access the bulk of the records. Now we have some great news.

” The province of Manitoba will celebrate its sesquicentennial in 2020 and plans to mark the anniversary are well underway. “

“HBCA is digitizing over 1000 reels of microfilm copies of pre-1870 trading post records, making them available to the world online. ”

Read the informative article from CTV Winnipeg here: https://bit.ly/2NCgNb0

Learn more about the HBCA here: https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/

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