Fort Vancouver Historic Structures Report

1. Caywood, Final Report, Excavation Drawings, sheet 8.

2. For information about the Beavers and their housing, see the sources cited in Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver, pp. 180-81; and Beaver, Reports and Letters, passim.

3. Beaver, Reports and Letters, p. 140.

4. Blanchet, Historical Sketches, p. 24.

5. Lieutenant Emmons in 1841, it will be recalled, identified the later Priests' House as the "Chaplains' . . . residence." The only official, Company-employed chaplain ever to reside at Fort Vancouver was Herbert Beaver, a fact that might be interpreted as indicating that the Beavers had lived in the Priests' House. But the term "chaplain" could have been employed by visitors to indicate one of the Catholic priests, even though the latter were never officially chaplains to the Company's establishments.

6. Lowe, "Private Journal," p. 22.

7. See sources cited in Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver, pp. 176-78. For a use of the term "chaplains" for the priests, see Deposition of Forbes Barclay, MS, G.L.O., Old Townsites, Docket I (165), Box No. 31, in National Archives.

8. Blanchet, Historical Sketches, p. 32.

9. Ibid., pp. 27—37.

10. Notices & Voyages of the Famed Quebec Mission to the Pacific Northwest, Being the Correspondence, Notices, etc. of Fathers Blanchet and Demers, together with those of Fathers Bolduc and Langlois . . . 1838 to 1847, trans. Carl Landerholm (Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1956), p. 25.

11. Blanchet, Historical Sketches, p. 37.

12. Notices & Voyages, p. 144; Wilfred P. Schoenberg, A Chronicle of the Catholic History of the Pacific Northwest, 1743-1960 ([Portland ?,] 1962), pp. 20, 23.

13. Notices & Voyages, p. 168.

14. Deposition of Forbes Barclay, G.L.O., Old Townsites, Docket I (165), Box No. 31, in National Archives; Affidavit of Joseph Petrain, October 25, 1873, MS, in ibid.; Wilkes, "Diary," Washington Historical Quarterly 16 (July, 1925): 219.

15. Emmons, "Journal," 3: entry for July 27, 1841.

16. Wilkes, "Diary," Washington Historical Quarterly 16 (July, 1925): 220.

17. Warre, "Travel and Sport in North America, 1839-1846," p. 137.

18. Rockwood, "Diary of Rev. George H. Atkinson," Oregon Historical Quarterly 40 (June, 1939): 181.

19. It is known that Ogden was living in the Big House by October 1, 1849, but he may not have moved in until James Douglas transferred to Fort Victoria earlier that same year. D. H. Vinton to P. F. Smith Fort Vancouver, October 1, 1849, in Br. & Am. Joint Comm. Papers, [9:]133.

20. Affidavit of Joseph Petrain, October 25, 1873, G.L.O., Old Townsites, Docket I (165), Box No. 31, in National Archives. Except where otherwise indicated, this account of where the priests lived between 1846 and about 1851 is based on the sources cited in Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver, p. 182.

21. Vinton to Smith, Fort Vancouver, October 1, 1849, in Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [9:]133.

22. Br.& Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [9:]75-77.

23. Except where otherwise indicated, this sketch of the Priests' House, 1849-60, is based on sources cited in Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver, p. 182.

24. Affidavit of the Most Reverend Francis Norbert Blanchet, [Vancouver], 1855, MS, G.L.O., Old Townsites, Docket I (165), Box No. 31, in National Archives.

25. Lowe, "Private Journal," p. 17; Pierre Jean de Smet, Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains, in 1845-46 (New York, 1847), p. 96.

26. Schoenberg, A Chronicle of Catholic History, p. 16; Warner and Munnick, Catholic Church Records, p. A-59; A biography of Father Nobili appeared in the San Francisco Herald (San Francisco, California), March 20, 1856.

27. Warner and Munnick, Catholic Church Records, Vancouver II, p. 60.

28. Schoenberg, A Chronicle of Catholic History, p. 18.

29. Warner and Munnick, Catholic Church Records, p. A-21.

30. Lowe, "Private Journal," pp. 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 40; Schoenberg, A Chronicle of Catholic History, pp. 17, 20, 21; Warner and Munnick, Catholic Church Records, Vancouver II, pp. 60-73; Lieutenant Warre noted that Father DeVos "constantly" resided at the fort during the winter of 1845-46. Warre, "Travel and Sport in North America, 1839-1846," p. 138.

31. Lowe, "Private Journal," p. 24; Warner and Munnick, Catholic Church Records, Vancouver II, pp. 61-62.

32. Lowe, "Private Journal," p. 38; Warner and Munnick, Catholic Church Records, Vancouver II, p. 73.

33. H.B.C.A., B.223/z/5, MS, fol. 265.

34. Caywood, Final Report, p. 14, and Excavation Drawings, sheet 8.

35. Description of footings and foundations based on Caywood, Final Report, pp. 14-15, and Excavation Drawings, sheet 8.

36. Ibid., p. 41.

37. Ibid., p. 14.

38. "Room Layouts in 'Big Houses' at Hudson's Bay Company Posts," typescript, (n.p., n.d.), p. 5.