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Hudson’s Bay Company Archives Library
The Hudson’s Bay Company Archives' library is a valuable resource containing thousands of books, articles and periodicals relating to:
- The Hudson’s Bay Company and the fur trade
- Indigenous peoples of North America
- The history of western Canada, the USA and the Arctic; and
- The Beaver magazine
The library also contains a rare book collection which includes a portion of the personal library of fur trader Peter Fidler (1769-1822), and books from libraries kept at various trading posts, including York Factory.
The HBCA library is a non-circulating library and can only be accessed from our Research Room at the Archives of Manitoba building in Winnipeg. Furthermore, items in the rare book collection may only be viewed by appointment. Contact hbca@gov.mb.ca to arrange an appointment.
To find books, articles and other library holdings, search the HBCA Library Catalogue.
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- Exhibits 995 to 1000: Photographs entered as exhibits in the Winnipeg General Strike trials (PDF)
- At Home and Away, Remembering the First World War through records at the Archives of Manitoba
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- Messages by Wire: Telegrams from the Time of the First World War
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- A. Governor and Committee Records
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- By Post Number
- B.1–B.15 (Abitibi–Belle Vue Sheep Farm)
- B.16–B.35 (Berens River–Chickney)
- B.36–B.50 (Chicoutimi–Dalles)
- B.51–B.60 (Fort Dauphin–Edmonton)
- B.61–B.70 (Egg Lake, Churchill River–Flying Post)
- B.71–B.88 (Fly Lake–Hulse House)
- B.89–B.104 (Île-à-la-Crosse–Lac La Biche)
- B.105–B.120 (Lac La Pluie–Fort McLoughlin)
- B.121–B.133 (Manchester House–Mistassini)
- B.134–B.135 (Montréal–Moose Factory)
- B.136–B.152 (Muskwaro–Fort Norman)
- B.153–B.162 (North West River–Pic)
- B.163–B.170 (Pike Lake–Québec)
- B.171–B.181 (Quesnel–Fort Resolution)
- B.182–B.197 (Fort Richmond–Setting River)
- B.198–B.213 (Severn–Swan River)
- B.214–B.225 (Tadoussac–Fort Vermilion, Saskatchewan River)
- B.226 (Fort Victoria)
- B.227–B.238 (Waswanipi–Yale)
- B.239 (York Factory)
- B.240–B.258 (Fort Yukon–Canoe Lake)
- B.259–B.276 (Cartwright–Duck Lake, Saskatchewan)
- B.277–B.295 (Eagle Lake–Keewatin)
- B.296–B.310 (Lac du Brochet–Massett)
- B.311–B.326 (Matachewan–Pincher Creek)
- B.327–B.347 (Pine Creek–Shoal River)
- B.348–B.370 (Fort Smith–Fort Wrigley)
- B.371–B.395 (Beaver Lake Portage–Bucke)
- B.396–B.420 (Cambridge Bay–Hopedale)
- B.421–B.444 (Hudson–Island Falls)
- B.445–B.469 (Nonala–Pukatawagan)
- B.470–B.502 (Read Island–Lethbridge)
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- Peter Fidler and the Selkirk Treaty
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- The Selkirk Treaty and Map
- Seven Oaks & HBCA Records
- Knight’s Tale
- Point Blanket Sail
- John Rae: Legacy of an Arctic Explorer
- David Thompson and Sipiwesk Lake
- Remnants of the Past: Broadway Bridge
- An Englishwoman in Moose Factory, 1833
- Remnants of the Past
- Wedding present fit for a princess
- Not a Fur Trade Fairy Tale
- A new store for an old company
- Love and marriage in a map
- HBC and Lord & Taylor together again
- Francis Heron’s account of the Red River Flood of 1826
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