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==Fur Traders Contracts==
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. (See [[Quebec Notarial Records]].) Some of those records have been inventoried in:  
*[http://shsb.mb.ca/en/Voyageurs_database 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.<ref>"Hudson's Bay Company Archives". Manitoba Archives. https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/. Accessed 6 October 2020.</ref>
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A very helpful source is: <br>
*''Finding Aid to the Hudson Bay Company Archives''. {{FSC|601669|title-id|disp=FamilySearch Library}}. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/microfilm-register/oclc/866558956 WorldCat].


== Online Resources  ==
Massicotte, E. Z. ''Répertoire des engagements pour l'Ouest conservés dans les archives judiciaires de Montréal 1670–17[45] (Repertory of Contracts for the West Preserved in the Montréal Judicial Archives 1670–17[45])''. Rapport de l'archiviste de la province de Québec pour 1929–1930 (Report of the Archivist of the Province of Québec [RAPQ], 1929–1930): 191–466. (Family History Library {{FHL|1177219|title-id|disp=book 971.4 A5r}} 1929–1930.) Text in French. Gives the name of the man who signed the contract and sometimes his home parish, the name of his employer, the name of the notary, and the date of the original contract. An index of names is at the end of the volume.


*[http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ Hudson's Bay Company Archives]
The inventories continue up to the contracts of 1821. They are in the following annual volumes of the RAPQ series:  
**[https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/search_hbca.html Resources]
 
**[https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/name_indexes/index.html Name Indexes]
=== Annual Volume Contracts  ===
 
1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33 up to 1778
 
1946–47 1778–1788
 
1942–43, 1943–44, 1945–46 1788–1821
 
Names of about 20,000 men are included in the above series. For detailed information, consult the original notarial records.  
 
In 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company merged with the North West Company to monopolize the fur trade in western North America. Names of many French Canadians are included in the Hudson's Bay Company records. Those records are described in [[Canada Business Records and Commerce]].
 
A bibliography of additional sources about people in the fur trade is:
 
*Hansen, James L. ''Voyageurs and Habitants: Tracing the Early French in the Great Lakes Region, National Genealogical Society Conference in the States (1995: San Diego, California)''. ''San Diego, A Place to Explore: Syllabus''. Two Volumes. [Arlington, Virginia, USA]: National Genealogical Society, 1995, 2:688–91. (Family History Library {{FHL|741966|title-id|disp=book 973 D25ngsc}} 1995.)
 
Some of the sources in [[Quebec Genealogy]] give more information about Québec men in the fur trade.  


==References==
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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. (See Quebec Notarial Records.) Some of those records have been inventoried in:

Massicotte, E. Z. Répertoire des engagements pour l'Ouest conservés dans les archives judiciaires de Montréal 1670–17[45] (Repertory of Contracts for the West Preserved in the Montréal Judicial Archives 1670–17[45]). Rapport de l'archiviste de la province de Québec pour 1929–1930 (Report of the Archivist of the Province of Québec [RAPQ], 1929–1930): 191–466. (Family History Library book 971.4 A5r 1929–1930.) Text in French. Gives the name of the man who signed the contract and sometimes his home parish, the name of his employer, the name of the notary, and the date of the original contract. An index of names is at the end of the volume.

The inventories continue up to the contracts of 1821. They are in the following annual volumes of the RAPQ series:

Annual Volume Contracts[edit | edit source]

1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33 up to 1778

1946–47 1778–1788

1942–43, 1943–44, 1945–46 1788–1821

Names of about 20,000 men are included in the above series. For detailed information, consult the original notarial records.

In 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company merged with the North West Company to monopolize the fur trade in western North America. Names of many French Canadians are included in the Hudson's Bay Company records. Those records are described in Canada Business Records and Commerce.

A bibliography of additional sources about people in the fur trade is:

  • Hansen, James L. Voyageurs and Habitants: Tracing the Early French in the Great Lakes Region, National Genealogical Society Conference in the States (1995: San Diego, California). San Diego, A Place to Explore: Syllabus. Two Volumes. [Arlington, Virginia, USA]: National Genealogical Society, 1995, 2:688–91. (Family History Library book 973 D25ngsc 1995.)

Some of the sources in Quebec Genealogy give more information about Québec men in the fur trade.