Surnames/tags: hbc Fur_Traders Voyageurs
The goal of this project is to create WikiTree profiles for all of the employees of the Hudson's Bay Company and/or the North West Company that have biographical sheets compiled by the Hudson's Bay Company Archives.
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Current members:
- Lianne Lavoie
- Baraboo-1
- Add your name here!
Here are some of the tasks that I think need to be done. I'll be working on them, and could use your help.
- Creating profiles corresponding to the biographical sheets.
- Further researching the employees and adding more sources to them.
- Connecting the employees to the tree.
Will you join me? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message. Thanks!
This project is hosting the Fur Trader Challenge right now! Visit the G2G post to participate!
Contents |
Links
- His Majestys Royal Charter to the Governor and Company of Hudson Bay, 80 pages_2 May 1669
- HBC Archives HBC Archives, University of Manitoba. Site has basic transcriptions and sources for microfilm for fur trade contracts, searchable by name.
- The Fur Trade in New France French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan, information about early fur trade contracts in Quebec, Ontario and Michigan, as well as general information
- genealogywise - Fur Traders Voyageurs
- Voyageurs
- The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture. Gabriel Dumont Institute, in partnership with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, the Department of Canadian Heritage's Canadian Culture Online Program, the Canada Council for the Arts, SaskCulture, the Government of Canada and the University of Saskatchewan
Other Projects
- Space:Manitoba_Team
- Space:Saskatchewan_Team
- Space:Alberta_Team
- Space:British_Columbia_Team
- Project:First_Peoples_Canada
- Space:Metis
G2G Questions
- https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/704752/voyageur-contracts-fur-trade-in-canada
- https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/316657/categories-for-fur-trappers-traders
Sources
THE FUR TRADE, VOYAGEURS, COUREURS-DE-BOIS AND MÉTIS
Compiled by James P. LaLone, revised 2018
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Baraga, R.R. Bishop - A DICTIONARY OF THE OTCHIPWE LANGUAGE, repr. 1966, Minneapolis.
Bell, Charles N. - THE EARLIEST FUR TRADERS ON THE UPPER RED RIVER AND RED LAKE, MINNESOTA (1783-1810), 1926, Winnipeg.
Bernard, Pierre - REPERTOIRE DES DECES DE LA PAROISSE L'ANNONCIATION DE LA BIENHEUREUSE VIERGE MARIE D'OKA, DE 1721-1942, 1996, Quebec.
___________ - REPERTOIRE DES NAISSANCES DES MÉTIS ET AMÉRINDIENS, 1996, Quebec.
Bordace, Tim & Dorrie Brown - THE LABRADOR SETTLERS, MÉTIS & KABLUNANGAJUIT, 1994, Happt Valley-Goose Bay.
Bristol, Linda E. - LIBER DEFUNCTORUM: THE REGISTER OF DEATHS OF THE ST. JOSEPH MISSION 1835-1860 AND HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH 1861-1900,
_______, - MARRIAGES OF LaPOINTE (WI), 1835-1880.
Burnett, William - LETTER BOOK OF WILLIAM BURNETT: EARLY FUR TRADER IN THE LAND OF FOUR FLAGS, 1967.
Chaput, Donald - "The Semantics of Nadowa", p. 228 in "Names, Journal of the American Name Society," v.15, 1967.
Davidson, Gordon Charles - THE NORTH WEST COMPANY, 1967, New York.
Dotson, Michael E. - IN SEARCH OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, 1986, Lockport.
DuLong, John P. - "Engagements: Guide to Fur Trade Employment Contracts, 1670-1821," in "Michigan's Habitant Heritage," v.10 #3 (Jul 1989), pp.47-58.
Ens, Gerhard J. – HOMELAND TO HINTERLAND. THE CHANGING WORLDS OF THE RED RIVER METIS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1996, Toronto.
Faux, David - "Documenting Six Nations Indian Ancestry", p. 31 in "Families," journal of the Ontario Genealogical Society, v.20 #1, 1981.
Foley, William E. - THE FIRST CHOUTEAUS, RIVER BARONS OF EARLY ST. LOUIS, 1983, Urbana.
Foster, John, et al - FUR TRADE GENEALOGY, 1986, Edmonton.
Francis, Daniel & Toby Morantz - PARTNERS IN FURS: A HISTORY OF THE FUR TRADE IN EASTERN JAMES BAY, 1600-1870.
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Gidley, Bryan & Gwen Paterson - THE PENETANGUISHENE LIST OF THE DRUMMOND ISLANDERS, 1815-1828, 1991, Penetanguishene.
Gilman, Carolyn - WHERE TWO WORLDS MEET: THE GREAT LAKES FUR TRADE.
Gilman, Rhoda R. - FUR TRADE IN THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, 1630-1850, 1974, Madison.
Greenbie, Sydney - FRONTIERS AND THE FUR TRADE, 1929, New York.
Haworth, Paul L. - TRAILMAKERS OF THE NORTHWEST, 1921, New York.
Hayes, Sheila - "Métis Research", p. 3 in "Generations," journal of the Manitoba Genealogical Society, v.11 #1, 1986.
Idle, Dunning - THE POST OF THE ST JOSPEH RIVER DURING THE FRENCH REGIME, 1679-1761, 1946. Innis, Harold Adams - THE FUR TRADE IN CANADA: AN INTRODUCTION TO CANADIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY, 1930, New Haven.
Jackson, John C. - CHILDREN OF THE FUR TRADE, 1995, Missoula.
Johansen, Gregory J. - "To Make Some Provision for Their Half-Breeds: the Nemaha Half-Breed Reserve, 1830-66", p. 8 in "Nebraska History," quarterly of the Nebraska State Historical Society, v.67 #1, 1986.
Johnson, Ida A. - THE MICHIGAN FUR TRADE, 1919, Lansing.
Johnston, William - LETTERS ON THE FUR TRADE, 1833, 1910?
Karamanski, Theodore J. - FUR TRADE AND EXPLORATION: OPENING THE FAR NORTHWEST 1821-1852, 1983, Norman.
Kent, Timothy J. - PHANTOMS OF THE FRENCH FUR TRADE: TWENTY MEN WHO WORKED IN THE TRADE BETWEEM 1618 AND 1758, 3 vols., 2015, Ossineke, MI
_______, RENDEZVOUS AT THE STRAITS, FUR TRADE AND MILITARY ACTIVITIES AT FORT du BAUDE AND FORT MICHILIMACKINAC, 1669-1781, 2 vols., Ossineke, MI
Krug, Merton E. - DUBAY, SON-IN-LAW OF OSHKOSH.
Lantz, Raymond C. - OTTAWA AND CHIPPEWA INDIANS OF MICHIGAN, 1870-1909, 1991, Bowie.
Lefebvre, Jean-Jacques - "Repertoire des Engagements pour l'Ouest 1778-1788," in RAPPORT DES ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU QUEBEC, (1946/47), pp.301-369.
Library of Michigan - THE FUR TRADE IN MICHIGAN'S HISTORY, 1992, Lansing.
THE FUR TRADE, VOYAGEURS, COUREURS-DE-BOIS AND MÉTIS
Mackenzie, Alexander - VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL ON THE RIVER ST. LAURENCE, 1966, Ann Arbor.
Massicotte, Edouard-Zotique - "Conges et Permis Deposes ou Enregistres a Montreal sous le Regime Francais (1681-1737)," in RAPPORT DES ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU QUEBEC, (1921/22), pp.189-225.
_______, - "Conges de Traite Conserves aux Archives de la Province du Quebec (1739-1752)," in RAPPORT DES ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU QUEBEC, (1922/23), pp.192-265.
_______, - "A Propos de Conges (1682-1725)," in "Les Bulletin des Recherches Historiques," v.3 #5 (May 1926), pp.296-300.
_______, - "Repertoire des Engagements pour l'Ouest Conserves dans les Archives Judiciaires de Montreal (1670-1821)," series in RAPPORT DES ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU QUEBEC: "1670-1745" in (1929/30), pp.191-466.
"1746-1752" in (1930/31), pp.353-453.
"1753-1758" in (1931/32), pp.243-365.
"1758-1778" in (1932/33), pp.245-304.
"1788-1797" in (1942/43), pp.261-397.
"1798-1801" in (1943/44), pp.335-444.
"1802-1804" in (1944/45), pp.309-401.
"1805-1821" in (1945/46), pp.301-369.
McDonald, Lois H. - FUR TRADE LETTERS OF FRANCIS ERMATINGER, 1980, Glendale.
Michigan Dpt. of Education, Bureau of Library Services - "Family Trails," v.2 #4, Fall-Winter, 1969-70, whole issue deals with Michigan Indian genealogy.
Milne, Kim - CHILDREN OF THE COUNTRY, 1988, Winnipeg.
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________ - MANITOBA SCRIPT, 1996, Pawtucket.
________ - MÉTIS FAMILIES: A GENEALOGICAL COMPENDIUM, 2vls., 1996, Pawtucket.
Morse, Eric W. - FUR TRADE CANOE ROUTES OF CANADA/THEN AND NOW, 1969, Ottawa.
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Newman, Peter C. - MERCHANT PRINCES, 1991, New York.
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_______, - THE WISCONSIN FUR-TRADE PEOPLE, 1991.
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_____, - NATIVE AMERICAN RESEARCH IN MICHIGAN: A GENEALOGICAL GUIDE, 1997, Grawn.
"Michigan's Habitant Heritage," v.9 #3 (Jul 1988), pub. by the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan, whole issue deals with Métis.
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e.g. James Grahame
I'm a member of the New Project Committee. It looks like you're well on your way with categories, project members, goals, and even a challenge. I'm going to remove the New Project category.
Let me know if I can be of any assistance.
Debi
then I have my Scots from Orkney Islands and of course the Favel line and Titameg
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/biographical/d/delard_joseph.pdf
matches
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Delore-11
And:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/biographical/q/quintal_laurent.pdf
matches
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Quintal-195