Other Reviews and Brief Notices - The Letters of John McLoughlin from Fort Vancouver to the Governor and Committee, Second Series, 1830-44. Edited by E. E. Rich. With an Introduction by W. Kaye Lamb. [The Publications of the Champlain Society, Hudson's Bay Company Series, VI.] Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1943. Pp. xlix, 427, xv.

1946 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-105
Author(s):  
John Perry Pritchett
Keyword(s):  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Fort Vancouver ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

The Fort and the Village

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas C. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Spatial Segregation ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Fort Vancouver ◽  
Archaeology Of Colonialism ◽  
The Village ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

Fort Vancouver, located in southwestern Washington (USA), was the administrative headquarters and supply depot for the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) in the Pacific Northwest, essentially its colonial capital between ca. 1825 and 1845. The documentary record for Fort Vancouver suggests a spatial segregation between the fort and the village along class lines which separated the elite managers of the company from its employees (engagés). Archaeological and ethnohistoric data, however, tend to blur these sharp lines between the fort and the village as artifacts, pollen, and other data reveal a more complex colonial milieu tied to the unique multicultural nature of the settlement and ties to indigenous and other non-Western communities. The historical archaeology of colonialism at Fort Vancouver helps the modern descendants of these people, as well as others tied to the fort, reconnect to their history and heritage and develop a dialogue regarding past and current identities.

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