• Image of the reconstructed stockade at Fort Vancouver and Pearson Air Museum looking northeast from the Land Bridge.

    Fort Vancouver

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Dawn to Dusk; The Work Day at Fort Vancouver

Bake House

This program runs a 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Wednesdays and Fridays, March 6th through April 19th. It last 1 hour and 15 minutes and is open to 2 classes (70 students, including chaperones). Program begins at the Front Gates of the Fort.


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Description:

Dawn to Dusk focuses predominately on the work experiences of employees inside of Fort Vancouver. Without the strenuous labor performed by the company servants at Fort Vancouver, the Hudson Bay Company would have failed in the attempt to settle and develop the Northwest. Bring your students to participate in this hands-on program in which students will get a chance to experience a day in the life of a Laborer at Fort Vancouver in the 1840s. Students will be given the opportunity to:

  • Sign a copy of an Hudson's Bay Company Contract
  • Make sea biscuits in the Bake House
  • Learn about historic building techniques in the Carpenter Shop
  • And identify and touch animal pelts in the Fur Warehouse.

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Did You Know?

Black and white image of Dr. John McLoughlin

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