that's the spirit! -----Original Message----- From: cyle hallborg <hallborg@telus.net> To: CAN-MB-WINNIPEG-L@rootsweb.com <CAN-MB-WINNIPEG-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, March 02, 2000 7:22 PM Subject: [MBWINNIPEG-L] Re: HBC. >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 >> > > >==== CAN-MB-WINNIPEG Mailing List ==== >Protect Canadian Census Records From Destruction >http://globalgenealogy.com/census/index.htm >POST 1901 CENSUS PROJECT >