12 Facts About Fort Vancouver

Fort Vancouver was a 19th-century fur trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department, located in the Pacific Northwest.

Furs from Fort Vancouver were often shipped to the Chinese port of Guangzhou where they were traded for Chinese manufactured goods for sale in the United Kingdom.

At its pinnacle, Fort Vancouver watched over 34 outposts, 24 ports, six ships, and 600 employees.

Fort Vancouver is in the shape of a parallelogram, about 250 yards long, by 150 broad; enclose by a sort of wooden wall, made of pickets, or large beams firmly fixed in the ground, and closely fitted together, twenty feet high, and strong secured on the inside by buttressess.

In fact, it's been suggested that the Fort Vancouver had the "largest single group of Hawaiians ever to congregate outside their home islands.

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From its establishment, Fort Vancouver was the regional headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trade operations in the Columbia District.

Fort Vancouver left the company in 1846 to found Oregon City in the Willamette Valley.

James Douglas spent nineteen years in Fort Vancouver; serving as a clerk until 1834 when he was promoted to the rank of Chief Trader.

Fort Vancouver eventually began to produce a surplus of food, some of which was used to provision other HBC posts in the Columbia Department.

Fort Vancouver was supplied in part through the overland York Factory Express.

Fort Vancouver was declared a U S National Monument on June 19, 1948, and redesignated as Fort Vancouver National Historic Site on June 30, 1961.

Notable buildings of the restored Fort Vancouver include a bake house, where Hardtack baking techniques are shown, a Blacksmith shop, a carpenter shop and its collection of carpentry tools, and the kitchen, where daily meals were prepared.