Memories of the HBC

The special issue about HBC history ( Canada’s History, April-May 2020), reminded me of some of my personal souvenirs. My father, Gilbert Pelchat, had many sidelines when we lived in Plessisville, Quebec, when I was a kid in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was a trapper and regularly caught fur animals to sell the pelts to, yes, the Hudson’s Bay Company. Once a year he would go to the HBC store in Quebec City and sell the furs he had caught during the winter. It could bring some appreciable extra money, considering that he did not have a high wage at the factory where he worked and, to tell the truth, we were dirt poor. André Pelchat L’Avenir, Quebec