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More than sixty-five tonnes of tobacco moved through York Factory between 1720 and 1774. Much of it was packaged in a form known as a carrot, because it resembled the shape and size of the vegetable.

The cassette seen here was once owned by George Simpson McTavish Jr., who was born at Fort Albany on the west coast of James Bay.

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

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

For the past decade, Canada’s History has been highlighting artifacts from the HBC Collection of the Manitoba Museum.

From the archive: HBC journal entries offer glimpses of the Yuletide season at remote outposts.

An example of early twentieth-century fashion in a moose-skin dress.

It wasn’t long ago when many Canadians hid the fact that they were part Indigenous... but some secrets are too hard to keep.

Book Review: Anthropologist Jennifer S.H. Brown’s collection of essays mines her four decades of research into the fur trade and its impact on the Cree and Ojibwe people of Rupert’s Land.