Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives

by Deidre Simmons

Overview

Winner, Manitoba Day Award, Association of Manitoba Archives (2008)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773577824
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	11/15/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Deidre Simmons, a research and archives consultant for twenty-five years, holds a Master's degree in history (archival studies) from the University of Manitoba. She is the author of Servite in Caritate: The First One Hundred Years of St. Margaret's Schoo

Table of Contents

Foreword Maureen Dolyniuk ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 3

1 if it can bee Soe Soone done: The First Fifty Years of Record-Keeping, 1670-1720 13

2 upon on Account to Communicate any of the Company's Affairs: Record-Keeping and Corporate Memory, 1720-1800 43

3 a regular communication: The Record-Keeping of Amalgamation and Colonization, 1800-1830 83

4 request the favour of your particular attention: Expanding Horizons Require Detailed Record-Keeping, 1830-1860 115

5 to surrender to Her Majesty: Record-Keeping in a New Country, 1860-1920 143

6 custodians of a great inheritance: Developments Evolving from the 250th Anniversary, 1920-1930 182

7 rendered available for inspection by students of history: Establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, 1930-1960 218

8 to deposit its Archives in Winnipeg: Transfer of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, 1960-1974 262

Postscript 287

Appendices

1 Secretaries of the Hudson's Bay Company 296

2 Archivists of the Hudson's Bay Company 298

Notes 303

Bibliography 335

Index 347