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=== The Canada Company === | === The Canada Company === | ||
Murdoch, Gerald. Canada Company Remittances, Jan- May 1845. The Canada Company was formed to promote settlement of Ontario. One method was to send money back to the homeland without charge. This list was transcribed from vol.1-3, of the Company papers. Only entries that show relationships are listed. Names, addresses and purpose the funds are to be used for, are given. Article in ''The Irish Ancestor'', vol. XIV. no.2. 1982 pages 99-104. {{ | Murdoch, Gerald. Canada Company Remittances, Jan- May 1845. The Canada Company was formed to promote settlement of Ontario. One method was to send money back to the homeland without charge. This list was transcribed from vol.1-3, of the Company papers. Only entries that show relationships are listed. Names, addresses and purpose the funds are to be used for, are given. Article in ''The Irish Ancestor'', vol. XIV. no.2. 1982 pages 99-104. {{FSC|281874|item|disp=FS Library book 941.5 B2i}} | ||
=== Hudson’s Bay Company === | === Hudson’s Bay Company === | ||
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A very helpful source is: | A very helpful source is: | ||
*''Finding Aid to the Hudson Bay Company Archives''. (Family History Library film{{ | *''Finding Aid to the Hudson Bay Company Archives''. (Family History Library film{{FSC|601669|title-id|disp=1730847 and 1730848}}). This is not a name index to the records but a description of the various series in the records. | ||
Personal names from some of these records are in: | Personal names from some of these records are in: | ||
*Briggs, Elizabeth, and Anne Morton. ''Biographical Resources at the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives''. Volume One. Winnipeg: Westgarth, 1996. (Family History Library book {{ | *Briggs, Elizabeth, and Anne Morton. ''Biographical Resources at the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives''. Volume One. Winnipeg: Westgarth, 1996. (Family History Library book {{FSC|780364|title-id|disp=971 U33b}} v. 1). This book describes microfilm and book sources and tells where to find them. It includes a glossary of terms, a bibliography, and an index. Pages 48 to 59 list more than 1,100 men associated with the North West Company before 1821. Pages 153 to 158 list persons associated with expeditions to the American Northwest (present Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon) from 1824 to 1829. | ||
The Hudson’s Bay Company Archives to about 1904 may be loaned to public libraries. There are journals and correspondence (1,900 rolls of microfilm) for more than 200 trading posts (1703–1894), and lists of officers, servants, and contracts (1774–1904). Records of employees usually give name, age, occupation, pay rate, and location of employment. Further information is available from: | The Hudson’s Bay Company Archives to about 1904 may be loaned to public libraries. There are journals and correspondence (1,900 rolls of microfilm) for more than 200 trading posts (1703–1894), and lists of officers, servants, and contracts (1774–1904). Records of employees usually give name, age, occupation, pay rate, and location of employment. Further information is available from: | ||
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