An in-person auction Heffel hosted in November 2025 focused on art. The first online sale, which ran through December 2025, added HBC point blankets. A third auction ran until the end of January 2026 and focused on retail-era curios. Many of the items, including a slew of striped blankets as old as 1930, hearken back to HBC’s origins as a fur-trading business born in 1670. For example, there’s a replica of an oil and gas beaver pelt cheque, a “land for offer” sign and a Churchill, Man., “first shipment” souvenir plate.






