Provincial Archives of Manitoba

Belleau Collection (microfilm from Assumption Abbey Archives, Richardton, ND)
MG1 A1 Chief Peguis Collection
MG1 B8 “A description of the travels of the Philip Maguire Family in the 1800’s from Fort Garry to Upper Canada and the return trip”
MG1, D11; M99, William Lane Papers
MG2, 83, Red River Settlement Censuses, 1856
MG2, B5, A. Mcbnnell to A. Christie, 30 November 1845
MG2 A5 Copies of various documents relating to the Red River Settlement (Robert Parker Pelly fonds 1820s)
MG2 A5/1 Agreement between Robert Parker Pelly and Michael Gatien for the construction of a building ((Robert Parker Pelly fonds 1820s)
MG2 B1-B2 Council of Assiniboia fonds
MG2, B5, B6-1, Correspondence and Minutes of Executive Relief Committee
MG2, B6, Minutes of the Executive Relief Committee, Reports for the parishes of St. Boniface, St. Vital, St. Norbert, St. Franqois-Xavier-Baie, St. Paul (White Horse Plain), St. Laurent (Lake Manitoba),
St. Charles and Ste. Anne (Pointe de Chênes).
MG2, B7-3, John Ffolliott Crofton Journal
MG2, B7-4, John Balmer Journal
MG1 C6 (F) #1 Bill of lading of the carts for Fort Ellice 1861
MG2 C13 Samuel Taylor fonds
MG2, C15.1, William Cowan Papers
MG2, 85, A. C h r i s t i e to Simpson, 31 December 1845.
MG3 B7 Journal of Red River (Canada) Expedition by Captain James Dundas of 60th Rifles
MG6 A1 James Morrow Walsh fonds
MG9, A6, Biographie de Louis Goulet
MG9, A75-2, Robert Miller Christy Papers
MG9, A31, Mémoires de Louis Schmidt
MG14 C23 Charles Napier Bell fonds
MG20, E4, Petition to His Excellency Sir Edmund Walter Head Bart, Governor-General of British North America from the Inhabitants and Natives of the Red and Assiniboine Country, 1857.
MG20, E5, Red River Settlement Census
MG24, H87, Humphrey Lloyd Hime fonds – 1857-1858
M106, Public Records Office, War Office 33121, “Reports on Routes to Fort Garry”: Duncan Sinclair Field Notes, 1871
RG17, Surveyor G. McPhillips Notebook 555, 1873 Parish of St. Vital lots 12-13

Hudson’s Bay Company Archives

A. 6/23 London Outward Correspondence Books – HBC Office
A. 8/15 London Correspondence with H. M. Government
A. 11/96 London Inward Correspondence from HBC Posts
A. 12/45 London Inward Correspondence from Governors of HB Territories
B.63/c Fort Ellice inward correspondence 1856-1880
A. 67/1 Miscellaneous Papers
B. 6/b/G Fort Alexander Post Records
B.235/a/4-9, 12-16 Upper Fort Garry post journals 1820-1860
B.235/a/10-11 Survey journals of George Taylor
B.235/b/1-13 Red River District correspondence books 1822-1867
B.235/b/20b MG1 C9 #6 Upper Fort Garry and Winnipeg loose outward correspondence 1840-1891
B.235/c/1-3b Upper Fort Garry and Winnipeg general inward correspondence 1820-1895
B. 235/d Upper Fort Garry, Red River District and Winnipeg Store account books
B.235/e Red River District, Northern Department Depot and Winnipeg Store reports 1822-1827, [ca. 1856], 1885-1891
B.235/z/1 fos. 1-13 Upper Fort Garry packet lists 1843-1863
B.235/z/1 fos. 34-59 Upper Fort Garry bills of lading 1843-1868
B.235/z/1 fos. 60-198 Red River District invoices of supplies 1852-1870
B.235/z/1 fos. 199-511 Red River importations 1850-1871
B.235/z/1 fos. 553-649 Red River District statements of bills receivable and indents 1840-1852
B.235/z/2 fos. 1-73 Red River pay lists 1840-1867
B.235/z/2 fos. 74-150 Red River District accounts with Northern Department 1842-1866
B.235/z/2 fos. 296-563 Red River District miscellaneous accounts 1821-1870
B.235/z/2 fos. 564-597 Red River District accounts current 1859-1870
B.235/z/3 fos. 1-76 Red River District returns and agreements 1825-1870
B.235/z/3 fos. 77-107 Red River District inventories 1825-1862
B.235/z/3 fos. 108-233 Red River District payment certificates to annuitants 1836-1870
B.235/z/3 fos. 234-345 Upper Fort Garry records relating to pensioners 1848-1860
B.235/z/3 fos. 346-542 Red River District accounts with Royal Canadian Rifles and memoranda from York Factory 1829-1864
B.235/z/4-6 Upper Fort Garry, Commissioner’s Office and Fur Trade Department miscellaneous records
B. 156/a/33 Oxford House Post Records
B. 200/a/10, 27 Fort Simpson Post Records
B. 235/a/14-16, d/4 Fort Garry Post Records
B.235/c/1-3b, Upper Fort Garry and Winnipeg general inward correspondence
B. 239/f/28 Northern Department Minutes of Council
B.239/z/23 fos. 1-276 York Factory packet lists
D. 4/21-22, 24, 38, 43, 50, 52-54, 56-57 Governor George Simpson, Outward Correspondence
D. 4/76, Simpson t o Governor and Committee, 26 June 1856.
D. 4/77A, Simpson to Governor and Committee, 26 June 1856.
D.4/85-112 Governor George Simpson official reports to the Governor and Committee 1822-1843
D. 44/77, Simpson to Governor and Committee, 30 June 1857.
D. 5/46, Report by Major Seton, 5 February 1858.
D. 5/2, Petition of 1 June 1850.
D. 5/12, 14, 18, 20-22, 35, 46 Governor William Mactavish, Outward Correspondence
D. 5/28-29, P e t i t i o n to S i r G. Simpson, 1 June 1850.
D. 5/25, James S i n c l a i r t o G. Simpson, 14 June1849.
D. 5/29, E. C o l v i l e t o G. Simpson, 22 November 1850.
D. 5/30, E. Colvile to Simpson, 7 June 1856
D. 5/32, J. Black to Simpson, 9 December 1851
D. 5/34, A.W. Buchanan to Simpson, 29 September 1852.
D. 5/43, F.G. Johnson to Simpson, 9 April 1857; 23 May 1857.
D. 9 Governor William Mactavish, Inward Correspondence
D. 11/1 Donald A. Smith, Outward Correspondence
D. 12/8 Isobel Finlayson Journal Copy No 132(a) “Papers Relative to the expedition of Lieuts. Warre and Vavasour to the Oregon Territory, 3 November, 1846” from PRO Fo 5 Vol. 457
E.7/1-7, 9-56 Accounts of the Red River Settlement sent to the Governor and Committee 1811-1872
E.8/1-11 Copy no. 257 MG1 C8 #4 Legal records relating to the Red River Settlement 1811-1890
E. 12/1 Duncan and Isobel G. Finlayson personal papers
E. 36 Alexander Grant Dallas fonds
E.16/1-3 Council of Assiniboia records sent to the Governor and Committee
E.16/4 Miscellaneous Council of Assiniboia records 1839-1870
E.67/2-3, 5 Sixth Regiment of Foot fonds
E. 171/1 Copy no. 696 William Thomson Smith fonds
E. 226 John H. Stanger fonds
E. 239 Alexander and Jane Watt family fonds
E. 246/1-2 John Clarke collection

Red River Disturbance collection

Includes records from the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives & The Provincial Archives of Manitoba:
MG3 A1/1-MG3 A1/31;
SIS 4/B/10; SIS 4/B/11; SIS 4/B/12; SIS 4/B/14; SIS 4/B/16; SIS 4/B/17
D300 file 6

Centre du patrimoine: collections et recherches

0131 Fonds de Louis Riel
0075 Corporation archiépiscopale catholique romaine de Saint-Boniface. Séries: Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Fisher-D’Eschambeault etc.
SHSB 4957fonds de Joseph-Noël Ritchot: Archives de la Société historique de Saint-Boniface

Library and Archives Canada (formerly the Public Archives of Canada)

MG9-E5-1 Anglican Missions of Rupert’s Land fonds
MG19 Selkirk Papers
MG20A, J . A . Macdonald, incoming correspondence,
MG20-E21 James and Joseph Hargrave – Correspondence
MB2323, Lieutenants Warre and Vavasour Report, 1845-46
MG24, F71 (or R5587-0-2-E) Henry James Warre Papers
MG26A, J.A. Macdonald to J. Rose, 23 February 1870
MG26-K Department Of Postmaster General – Manitoba


RG17 (file no. 4277) C.J. THOMAS, UPPER FORT GARRY. ASKING FOR LAST DEPARTMENTAL REPORT & BLUE BOOK
RG6-C-1 (file no. 637) Secretary of State for the Provinces – C.J. Thomas, Upper Fort Garry, 8 February, 4 March – For copy of British NA [North America] Act 1867 and Blue Books relating to the North West Territories
RG13-A-2 Appropriation – Appropriation of land, for public purposes, near Hudson’s Bay Company post at Upper Fort Garry – From the Department of the Interior
R216-245-8-E Black Series – includes Manitoba government records such as those created by Alexander Morris, and the Indian Board – particular search required.
R4225-0-1-E James Colcleugh fonds
R4506-0-X-E William McDougall fonds
R5238-0-1-E Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal fonds
R6644-0-7-E James Bruce fonds
R6651-0-3-E William Dease fonds
R6967-0-2-E Old Fort Garry in the seventies: account by William John Morris
R6733-0-0-E Iliff family collection
R7666-0-8-E Sandford Fleming fonds
R7669-0-X-E James Finlayson fonds
R7841-0-3-E Robert Campbell fonds
R7886-0-2-E Lawrence Clarke fonds
R7918-0-9-E John Inkster fonds
R6946-0-9-E Leonore H. Parker collection
R7969-0-7-E Mhairi de Castro fonds
R8302-0-2-E Jacob Mountain collection

Microfilm reel T-12176 SIR. GEORGE E. CARTIER, CONFIRMATION OF ORDER IN COUNCIL OF 5 JULY 1869, HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY LANDS AT UPPER AND LOWER FORT GARRY AND WHITE HORSE PLAINS
Microfilm reel T-12179 ORDER IN COUNCIL RECOMMENDING THAT A PATENT BE ISSUED TO THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY FOR 450 ACRES FOR THEIR RESERVE AT UPPER FORT GARRY
Microfilm reel T-12178 DRAFT OF PATENT, CROWN TO HUDSONS BAY CO., 450 ACRES AT UPPER FORT GARRY, MANITOBA

Provincial Archives of British Columbia

ADD MSS 630, Archer Martin Papers

Other Online Sources

Entrance of Manitoba into Canada
Newspapers & other resources: Manitoba
Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada
The Archives of Manitoba Keystone database.
Historical Winnipeg Free Press Newspapers