Quebec Business Records and Commerce

Fur Traders Contracts

 * Voyageur (Fur Traders) Contracts Database, 1714-1830.
 * The names of several thousand Québec men disappeared from local church registers because they went west to work in the fur trade. Some of the contracts they signed are in notarial records.

Hudson’s Bay Company
Records of this fur trading company are some of Canada’s most important. Until 1870, the company controlled almost four-fifths of the territory of present-day Canada, including northern Quebec and Ontario and most of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Hudson’s Bay Company Archives (HBCA), home to the archival records of Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), is part of the Archives of Manitoba operating under The Archives and Recordkeeping Act and 1994 gift agreement between HBC and the Government of Manitoba. HBCA operations are supported in part through the ongoing financial support of the Hudson's Bay Company History Foundation. A very helpful source is:
 * Finding Aid to the Hudson Bay Company Archives. . WorldCat.

Online Resources

 * Hudson's Bay Company Archives
 * Resources
 * Name Indexes