Hello Bette, Yes, I have allready contacted the Hbc. They said any request would take about four week's to hear word from them ! I on the other hand am not a very patient person ! HA! Ha! So I am looking at all avenues ! Thank You again! DIANE HALLBORG Williams Lake , B.C. -----Original Message----- From: Bette Kosmolak <kosmo@pacificcoast.net> To: CAN-MB-WINNIPEG-L@rootsweb.com <CAN-MB-WINNIPEG-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, March 02, 2000 7:11 PM Subject: Re: [MBWINNIPEG-L] Re: My Genealogy! > > > >>Thank you Bette, I really appreciated it ! Sincerely, Diane Hallborg >My fellow BC friend - did you find the URL. I've tried to look at their >archives before but find them downright confusing. I don't know about now, >but not so many years ago, one could go to their archives in Wpg and leave >through the records wearing white gloves. Quite amazing my mother tells me, >to be sitting with the Factor's records from some fort, and leafing through >pages from the 1700's, etc. >Also, for those of your with HBC employees, there is (was?) a web site >around that listed 'undelivered mail' which the HBC has been holding for >years (like some of it nearly 100 years old). I had a major computer crash >last weekend and have lots that bookmark but you might search around to see >if 'you have mail!' > >I think all of the HBC records can be accessed - the trick seems to be in >learning how. > >Good luck, >Bette > > >==== CAN-MB-WINNIPEG Mailing List ==== >Canada GenWeb Archives Project >http://www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/cgwarchives.html >Primary Records for Canada >