Editing Hudson's Bay Company (section)

==Archives==
{{See also|Hudson's Bay Company Archives}}

The legacy of the HBC has been maintained in part by the detailed record-keeping and archiving of material by the company. Before 1974, the records of the HBC were kept in the London office headquarters. The HBC opened an archives department to researchers in 1931. In 1974, Hudson's Bay Company Archives (HBCA) were transferred from London and placed on deposit with the Manitoba archives in Winnipeg. The company granted public access to the collection the following year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About HBCA {{!}} Hudson's Bay Company Archives Archives of Manitoba |url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/about/index.html |access-date=21 July 2020}}</ref>

On 27 January 1994, the company's archives were formally donated to the Archives of Manitoba.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HBCA History |url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/about/hbca_history.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925004135/http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/about/hbca_history.html |archive-date=25 September 2015 |access-date=6 October 2015 |website=Hudson's Bay Company Archives |publisher=Government of Manitoba}}</ref>

At the time of the donation, the appraised value of the records was nearly $60&nbsp;million. A foundation, Hudson's Bay Company History Foundation funded through the tax savings resulting from the donation, was established to support the operations of the HBC Archive as a division of the Archives of Manitoba, along with other activities and programs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HBC History Foundation |url=http://www3.hbc.com/hbc/socialresponsibility/hbc-history-foundation/ |access-date=6 October 2015 |website=Hudson's Bay Company |archive-date=4 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004015400/http://www3.hbc.com/hbc/socialresponsibility/hbc-history-foundation/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> More than {{convert|2|km|spell=in}} of filed documents and hundreds of microfilm reels are now stored in a special climate-controlled vault in the Manitoba Archives Building.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

In 2007, Hudson's Bay Company Archives became part of the United Nations "[[Memory of the World Programme]]" project, under [[UNESCO]]. The records covered the HBC history from the founding of the company in 1670. The records contained business transactions, medical records, personal journals of officials, inventories, company reports, etc.<ref name="unesco">{{Cite web |title=Hudson's Bay Company Archival records |url=https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/hudsons-bay-company-archival-records/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |publisher=UNESCO Memory of the World Programme}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hudson’s Bay Company Archives – UNESCO Designation |url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/about/unesco-designation.html |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=Archives of Manitoba}}</ref>