Season 2 gets under way! Today our guest is PhD candidate in the Department of History at University of Manitoba, Krista Barclay. Over the summer, Krista was the only U of M scholar to be awarded a Newberry Fellowship research award to conduct field work at the U of M archives in Dafoe Library. Krista’s dissertation studies the migration patterns of 19th Century Retired HBC workers, and by extension, the movements of Métis and Indigenous families as they left the fur trade. We dig into geneaology as research and the ethics of community-based research with and for Indigneous families. Specifically, Krista explains the psyche of the retired company men and the socio-economic climate of leaving the fur trade in the mid to late 19th Century. Now that the fieldwork component of her PhD is complete, Krista plans to write her dissertation in the coming year, and dissemenate her findings on a digital platform.