Encampment 2012 Scheduled July 28

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  • Brad Smith helps his son Conner with a wash.
  • Battery D soldiers pose in field kitchen.
  • Royal Marine contingent raises flag
  • The U.S. tents are lined up in marching order.
  • The British contingent offers a salute.
  • Battery D storms about the kitchen
  • Battery D member Chris DeStaffany
  • Clint and Ruth Cannon pose with youngsters
  • Clint Cannon, Steart Marshall and Mary Gilbert
  • Don Thomas of Victoria, BC conducts colors
  • Mike and Julia Vouri take a turn
  • Dennis Burrich and Wendy Johannes
  • Battery D members exchange stories
  • Diane Ludeman poses with the colors
  • Don Thomas (left) and Scruffy Funk
  • Doreen Simpkins and Wendy Johannes
  • Young people gather to talk
  • Re-enactors from both sides at flagpole
  • The Union flag is raised
  • The bi-national formation
  • The US formation marches
  • Greg Hertel works on a firearm
  • The Encampment 2007 Re-enactors at the blockhouse
  • Bagpiper Helen Sanders
  • San Juan Islander Jim Meredith
  • Karen and Patrick Haas and Mary Gilbert
  • Battery D cooks all day everyday
  • Re-enactor Lee McEnery
  • Lisa Peppen takes a whack
  • Mary Gilbert chats with feloow dancers
  • Mary Gilbert and Peter Dederich
  • Mary Gilbert, deputy consul general
  • Oren Combs manipulates dough
  • San Juan Island's spinners and weavers
  • Dave Dysart (right) and Max Haenel
  • Todd Birch (right) and Peter Dederich
  • Re-enactors pose at blockhouse
  • Superintendent Peter Dederich
  • Chief of Interpretation Mike Vouri
  • Victorians and moderns blended
  • Tim and Sam Watkins
  • Todd Birch explains his craft
  • The US contingent for the day
  • Stewart Goodin and his camera
  • Brian Leyde and David "Scruffy" Funk
  • Stewart Marshall and Mary Gilbert
  • Stewart Marshall hosts high tea
  • Tim Watkins (left) and Don Thomas
  • Stu Stern and Max Haenel demonstrate
  • Encampment 2007 at Dusk
  • Morning in Camp
  • Morning Meeting
  • Todd Birch and Sandee McKinnon at the Dance
  • The Royal Marine Barracks decked out
  • Campfires and lanterns
  • The fife and drum group enjoys lunch
  • Dancers in period and modern dress
  • Needlework is always a popular attraction
  • The company street
  • The ball gowns are always smashing
  • Park Ranger Darlene Wahl and Fayette
  • Park ranger Ron Garner directs living history
  • Todd Birch expresses appreciation
  • Park Ranger Darlene Wahl checks with Battery D
  • Park Ranger Ron Garner and other re-enactors
  • A re-enactor demonstrates hoops
  • Fayette the guide dog is conspicuous in line
  • Max Haenel enjoys a peach
  • Mary Gilbert models her official park hat
  • British Deputy Consul General Mary Gilbert
  • David "Scruffy" Funk share a sea story
  • Lois Ferguson, Kate Goldberg and Sher Franklin
  • Musicians play under a canvas awning
  • Laurie Leroux show off her teapot
  • Patick Haas demonstrates a toy for a visitor
  • Michael Cohen instructs dancers
  • 19th century-garbed people in front of blockhouse
  • The Encampment scene from window
  • Michael Murphy tends the fire
  • Women darn and knit under canopy

 

The 1860s Color Guard representing the park and the Battery Foundation march from the blockhouse during the first Encampment in 1998. Still active members include Park Ranger Ron Garner (far left), Chris DeStaffany (second from left) and Oren Combs (second from right).

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Re-enactors from throughout the Pacific Northwest and Canada will once again celebrate peace as they gather for the 14th Annual Encampment scheduled July 28-29 on the English Camp parade ground. 

The event is free except where noted. Disabled persons should call the park at [phone] or [phone] for special access information.

Highlight of this year's event include recreations of mid-19th century Royal Marine Light Infantry and U.S. Army camp life, demonstrations of black powder firing, music, blacksmithing, spinning and weaving, sewing and cooperage and carpentry, along with the pageantry of period uniforms in scarlet and blue.

Saturday's schedule will culminate in the Candlelight Ball, scheduled at 8 p.m., in the English Camp barracks. The public is invited to join in the dancing and refreshments that will include the traditional cake and punch. Music for contra dancing will be provided by the folk group Sugar on the Floor.

Bookmark this page for periodic updates. A complete schedule will be released June 1.

 

The Encampment 2008 living history contingent poses for the annual photograph in front of the Royal Marine blockhouse at English Camp. As many as 150 re-enactors attend the event each year bringing frontier skills such as blacksmithing, spinning and weaving, maritime craft, cooking (and cleaning up), as well as soldiering skills.

Ron Garner Photo

 

Ron Garner Photo

Sam and Tim Watkins of Maple Ridge, BC have been attending Encampment together since the very first in 1998.

As with every year, Encampment 2012 commemorates the peaceful joint occupation of San Juan Island by British and American forces from 1859 to 1872, and final settlement of the Northwest Boundary dispute.

Throughout the joint occupation the garrisons exchanged visits to celebrate holidays that included Christmas, the Fourth of July and Queen Victoria's birthday. Typically the men would participate in athletic contests, imbibe in spirits and other refreshments and usually host a dance to which the community was invited.

The Encampment tradition was renewed in 1998 on the occasion of the dedication of English Camp's 80-foot flagpole, a gift to the park by the people of the United Kingdom. The event drew nearly 600 people to the parade ground, including distinguished guests and officials from both nations.

For more information about Encampment 2012, call [phone], ext. 2233 or e-mail.

 

“The lessons of diplomacy are found right here,” said British Consul Mike Upton during the first Encampment in 1998.

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