Fort Vancouver Historic Structures Report

1. Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [2:]176-77. The 1846-47 inventory of Company improvements at Fort Vancouver included "3 Root Houses, 60 x 20," but they were listed under the heading "Out Buildings" and thus were not within the stockade. Ibid., pp. 118-19.

2. Ibid., pp. 202-3.

3. Ibid., [9:]75—77.

4. Caywood, Final Report, p. 20. The evidence as to whether the building was burned is inconclusive. The wooden floor was "badly charred," as if the structure had suffered a fire, but the sills showed no signs of burning.

5. Ibid. In actuality, the discovery of the Root House sills, revealing the dimensions of the structure, seems to have been the first step in the identification of this building. Only about half of the Root House site was excavated in 1952.

6. Ibid.

7. For example, the Vavasour plan which does not show the privies, were a conspicuous part of the fort scene; the Covington map omits the magazine and one or more structures in the Beef Store-Wheat Store vicinity.

8. See Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver, Plate XVI.

9. H.B.C.A., B.223/z/5, MS, fols. 265d-266.

10. Caywood, Final Report, pp. 19-20, and Excavation Drawings, sheets 4 and 7.