Archives of Manitoba

Summaries of fur trade catalogues

1876-1916

13 cm of textual records

Series consists of records documenting the total quantities of each kind of fur or produce offered in the Hudson's Bay Company's catalogues. Catalogues were produced for each public sale, with several sales generally held in a year. In addition to totals of the products offered in the catalogues, the summaries also provide invoice quantities and quantities arrived at after goods were received and tallied in London. The series also includes a grading book for March sales in the late nineteenth century.

There are no restrictions on access to these records.

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The Archives Department of the Hudson's Bay Company was created in London in the 1920s. The Archives Department had custody of the records until they were transferred on deposit to the Archives of Manitoba in 1974, according to the 1973 Agreement between the HBC and the Province of Manitoba. In 1994, the HBC donated the records to the Province to be maintained permanently by the Archives of Manitoba.

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