>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