Fort Vancouver Historic Structures Report

1. H.B.C., District Statements, York Factory, 1824-1826, H.B.C.A., B.239/l/1b, MS, pp. 38, 77; Clinton A. Snowden, A History of Washington; the Rise and Progress of an American State, 4 vols. (New York, 1904), 1:477.

2. In 1866 W. H. Gray, who was well acquainted with Fort Vancouver from the time of his first visit in 1836, testified that a new Blacksmith Shop had been erected in the eastern section of the fort after the enclosure was doubled in size about 1836. Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [8:]184.

3. "Proceedings of a board of officers, Fort Vancouver, June 15, 1860," A.G.O., Ore. Dept., Doc. File 212-S-1860, in National Archives.

4. Warre, "Travel and Sport in North America, 1839-1846," p. 104.

5. The map of Fort Vancouver and vicinity drawn by Richard Covington in 1846 (Plate XIII, vol. I) shows a structure labeled "Smith's h[ouse]" close to the bank of the Columbia River near the boat sheds. Perhaps this was the dwelling of Malcolm Smith, a dairy man, and not of a blacksmith.

6. H. H. Spalding to David Green[e], Fort Vancouver, September 20, 1836, in American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Papers, Cherokee Mission, MS, vol. 9, item 203, in Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

7. H.B.S., 4:260.

8. H.B.C., District Statements, York Factory, 1838-1839, H.B.C.A., B.239/l/9, MS, pp. 44, 49.

9. Roberts, "The Round Hand of George B. Roberts," p. 197.

10. H.B.C., District Statements, York Factory, 1845-1846, H.B.C.A., B.239/l/16, MS, pp. 57, 58, 61.

11. Wilkes, Narrative, 4:336.

12. Caywood, Final Report, pp. 34-35 and figs. 6 and 8. These drawings are reproduced as Plates LVI and LVII in this report.

13. Archer Butler Hulbert and Dorothy Printup Hulbert, eds., Marcus Whitman, Crusader, Part One, 1802-1839, Overland to the Pacific, vol. 6 ([Denver,] 1936), pp. 248-51.

14. George Wilkes, The History of Oregon, Geographical and Political . . . to Which is Added a Journal of the Celebrated Emigrating Party of 1843 (New York, 1845), p. 98.

15. See pp. 230-31, 290-92, in vol. I of this report; also Caywood, Final Report, pp. 34-45.

16. H.B.C., Fort Vancouver, Account Book, 1838-1852 [Requisitions], H.B.C.A., B.223/d/207, MS, fol. 116.

17. H.B.S., 6:22— 23.

18. Ibid., p. 22 fn.

19. Ibid., pp. 302-3; ibid., 29:132—33.

20. Ibid., 6:94-95.

21. H.B.C.A., B.239/1/23, MS, p. 30.

22. Dugald Mactavish to W. F. Tolmie, Vancouver, July 27, 1857, MS, in Fort Vancouver, Correspondence Outward, 1850-1858, Letters Signed by Dugald Mactavish, in Provincial Archives of British Columbia.

23. H.B.C., District Statements, York Factory, 1845-1846, H.B.C.A., B.239/l/16, MS, pp. 57, 58, 61.

24. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/162, MS, p. 7.

25. Ibid.

26. Warner and Munnick, Catholic Church Records, Vancouver II, pp. 58, 86; An H.B.C. axe, marked "JB," is in the collections of the Oregon Historical Society, and a pair of blacksmith's tongs bearing the same initials was recently excavated at Fort Vancouver. Could these have been made by Joseph Beauchamp? Lester A. Ross, telephone conversation with J. A. Hussey, April 18, 1974; Caywood, Final Report, p. 34.

27. H.B.C.A., B.239/l/4, MS, pp. 13, 66; B.239/1/5, MS, p. 37.

28. Tolmie, Journals of William Fraser Tolmie, pp. 266, 279.

29. H.B.C.A., B.239/1/6, MS, p. 45; B.239/l/9, MS, p. 44; B.239/l/13, MS, p. 59; B.239/l/16, MS, p. 59.

30. Warner and Munnick, Catholic Church Records, Vancouver II, pp. 45, 80, 107.

31. H.B.C.A., B.223/g/10, MS, p. 14.

32. H.B.C., Fort Vancouver, Miscellaneous Items, 1845-1866, H.B.C.A., B.223/z/5, MS, fol. 265.

33. Caywood, Final Report, p. 18, and Map of Archeological Excavations, sheet 6.

34. J. J. Hoffman to J. A. Hussey, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, April 11, 1974.

35. Ibid.

36. Testimony of H. A. Tuzo, in Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [2:]176-77, 183.

37. Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [8:]275.

38. For a discussion of this point, see Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver, p. 161.

39. J. J. Hoffman to J. A. Hussey, April 11, 1974.

40. Caywood, Final Report, p. 18; J. J. Hoffman to J. A. Hussey, April 11, 1974.

41. Testimony of H. A. Tuzo, in Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [2:]183.

42. J. J. Hoffman to J. A. Hussey, April 11, 1974.

43. Telephone conversation, Lester A. Ross with J. A. Hussey, April 18, 1974.

44. H.B.C., Account Book, Fort Vancouver, 1844 [Inventories], H.B.C.A., B.223/d/155, MS, pp. 160-61.

45. H.B.C., Account Book, Fort Vancouver, 1845 [Inventories], H.B.C.A., B.223/d/160, MS, p. 141.

46. H.B.C., Account Book, Fort Vancouver, 1847, H.B.C.A., B.223/d/174, MS, fols. 98d-99.

47. H.B.C., Account Book, Fort Vancouver, 1848, H.B.C.A., B.223/d/181, MS, fols. 82—82d.