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.
Tales and Treasures from the rich legacy of the Hudson’s Bay Company
