Fort Vancouver Historic Structures Report

1. See 1818 plan of Fort George reproduced in Oregon Historical Quarterly 19 (December, 1918): opp. p. 271.

2. See sources cited in Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver, pp. 20-21.

3. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/158, MS, pp. 101—10; H.B.C.A., B.223/d/161, MS, pp. 119—22.

4. U.S., Congress, Senate, 21st Cong., 2d sess., Exec. Doc. No. 39, pp. 21-23.

5. Slacum, "Slacum's Report on Oregon," p. 185.

6. Emmons, "Journal," 3: entry for July 25, 1841 (See Plate III, vol. I). On the other hand, another visitor of 1841, Eugene Duflot de Mofras, definitely listed a shop for cooperage among the structures enclosed by the fort wall. Pipes, "Extract from Exploration," p. 153. However, there seems to be a more than accidental similarity between de Mofras's description of Fort Vancouver and that by Purser Slacum, which was published prior to de Mofras's visit.

7. This "Cooper's Shop" near the river actually was little more than a shed. In 1845 Joel Palmer and a party of Americans lodged there, attempting to sleep on a pile of staves. They found that the structure offered very little shelter from the wind and rain. Joel Palmer, Journal of Travels over the Rocky Mountains, to the Mouth of the Columbia River; Made During the Years 1845 and 1846, in Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed., Early Western Travels, vol. 30 (Cleveland, 1906), pp. 207-9.

8. H.B.S., 7:opp. p. 48.

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

10. Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [2:]176-77.

11. In the Eld drawing the westernmost structure is smaller than the one in the center, but almost all other representations agree in depicting the westernmost building as the largest of the three.

12. H.B.C.A., B.239/l/16, MS, pp. 57-61, 65; B.223/d/162. MS, pp. 29, 33.

13. H.B.C.A., B.239/l/22, MS, pp. 40-41.

14. H.B.C.A., B.239/l/23, MS, p. 36; B.223/g/10, MS, pp. 4-8, 20.

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

16. As reproduced in Plate XV in volume I of this report, the Cooper's Shop, at the extreme left of the picture, was nearly completely trimmed from the 1847-48 painting. The entire building can be seen in the frontispiece to Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver.

17. The United States distributor for this work is Fernhill House, Ltd., 303 Park Avenue South, New York 10, N. Y. The price is $17.00.

18. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/155, MS, pp. 161-62.

19. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/160, MS, pp. 141-42.

20. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/181, MS, fol. 83.

21. Fort Nisqually, Requisitions for Goods, 1843-1868 (FN 1249), MS, in Fort Nisqually Collection, Huntington Library.