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Discover Manitoba’s fur-trade legacy at the Festival du Voyageur.

The Beaver Club medal from Sir George Simpson.

Senior archivist Denise Jones shows us how to uncover layers of information by researching multiple records.

The Hudson’s Bay Company has been selling alcoholic spirits since its inception.

A canoe model made by an Anishinabe man.

Gut-skin raincoats are one of many examples of how indigenous peoples used all parts of the animals they hunted.

Bale seals are one of the most commonly forged Hudson’s Bay Company artifacts on the market.

The Inuit of southeastern Hudson Bay have been harvesting eiderdown for generations. 

Often called a buffalo knife or chief’s knife, this artifact was described as “extremely heavy… a sort of butcher’s cleaver with a point instead of squared-off end.”

This early 1820s hide coat is associated with the Métis culture from the Red River settlement area.