Some Canadian History

Transcriptions from journals and records in the Hudson's Bay Company Archives.

I try to be accurate but I make mistakes. All question marks are mine. They didn't care about punctuation so if something doesn't make sense, change a period or comma, then maybe it'll be clear. But maybe not.....

A note written in the York Factory Accounts book dated 1792-93.
" Your Honors will please to Observe that ever since this Draught Book was begun to be wrot that I have always been in a state of Intoxication which prevented me from being so Correct as I could wish. g d."
George Donald?
1M675 B.239/d/100

Currently working on Churchill Journal 1787-88 here
These records are all digitized and online at the Archives of Manitoba under Researching from a Distance using the Keystone Archives Descriptive Database
https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/search.html
and don't forget to check the digital copies box.

Here are 3 short lists, of furs traded at York Factory 1788, the value of some trading goods in Made Beaver and the values of various furs in Made Beaver in 1788 at York Factory.

Transcribed journal entries organized by Fort and Date

Albany 1771 - 80 here

Athabaska House Journal 1790-92 here

Big Fall 1802-03 here

Blood River 1794-95 here

Brandon House July 1793 to May 1819, 1823 here

Buckingham House Nov. 1792 to August 1799 here

Carlton House (Assiniboine) 1795-96 here and 1796-97 here

Carlton House (Sask.) 1795-98, Nov. 1814 to August 1822 here ---Carlton House (Sask.) Correspondence 1816-17 here

Carlton House (Three Points) Journal 1795-96 here

Cat Lake 1788-89 here

Fort Chipewyan aka Nottingham House 1803 - 1806 here

Churchill Factory 1783 - 1804 here

Cumberland House 1774 to June 1823 here

Duck Portage 1795-96 here

Eastmain 1790 91 92 93 by Jen Kolthammer here

Edmonton Aug. 1795 to July 1816 here

Gloucester House 1779-80 here

Gordon House aka Rock Depot 1794-95 here and 1796-97 here and 1797-98 here

Great Whale River 1815-16 here

Henley House 1779-80, 1798 to 1802, 1808, 1809, 1812, 1813, 1814 here

Hudson House Oct. 1779 to Sept. 1780, 1782, 1786 here

Ile-a-la-Crosse Aug. 1805 to Mar. 1806, June 1810 to June 1811 here

Manchester House 1786-93 here

Nipawi 1794-1795 here

Oxford House 1798-1799 here

Pelly Fort 1793-94 here

Severn 1786, Sept. 1788 to Nov. 1791, 1796, 1804 here

Shell River (Swan River) 1794-95 here

Somerset House (Swan River) 1794-95 here 1795-96 here.

South Branch House 1793-94 here

Sturgeon Lake July 1779 to May 1780, Mar. 1831 to April 1837 here

Swan River 1790 - 1795, 1817-18 here

Fort Victoria May 1846 to May 1850 by Graham Brazier et al, scholarized by the University of Victoria. Transcription at the highest level.

York Factory - 1778 to May 1819 here and a little correspondence from York Factory 1793 - 1798 here also the yearly General Letters from London to York Factory 1794 to 1809 here and replies from York Factory to London here

James Peter Whitford and Magnus Spence - Ancestors, the reason I started this.

Lists of HBC names, and More lists of HBC names plus 3 lists of men from the YF Account Books 1771-72 and 1781-82 and Churchill Factory Account Books1794-95 here and some Native names

Stories and Misc.
  Things that should be movies or documentaries

Dated stuff
  Things posted beginning 2012 - The latest being   Mad Donald   Donald Mackay's Brandon House Journal 1793-94 And I have finally finished George Sutherland's Sturgeon Lake Journal from 1779-80  here
Finished Peter Fidlers Journal at Ile a la Crosse 1810-1811. here

A Journey up the North River by Philip Turnor 1792

A report on Carlton House 1818-1819 and a little correspondence from Carlton House 1816 here

Some of the entries mentioning women are here

Spring breakup at York Factory 1788 here

Some leftover bits here

A tornado in Ontario in 1779
Aug, 7 1779 ..."stayed several days a mending our canoe. I cannot help remarking that Exactly at noon we had a Whirle wind on the opposite shore not above 800 yds from us. it first made a Terrible noise in the Woods then it all of a suden it got into the Water it made a noise like a clap of thunder making the Water flye from it like a perpendicular fall. it then run against the currant making the water fly from it like fogg. it then vanished about 300 yds up the river. it raged with such violence that it struck us all deaf for the space of a half an hour, there was none in the company that Ever saw the like before."...
George Sutherland Reel 1M144 B.211/a/1




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