Fort Vancouver Historic Structures Report

Recommendations

a. When issued, the report or the 1973 excavations at the site of the magazine should be carefully studied for additional information on the dimensions of the structure and the types and shapes of stones used. The wooden posts outside the foundations also require careful examination to determine their possible function.

b. Unless new evidence to the contrary should be uncovered, the walls and arched ceiling of the reconstructed magazine should be of brick. The bricks should be reproductions of the original British bricks now in the collections at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

c. The outer roof should be covered with interlocking tin roofing of the same pattern as that used at Lower Fort Garry, unless further archeological excavations should produce samples of the actual tin roofing used at Fort Vancouver, in which case the samples should be copied.

d. The outer roof should have the form and appearance of that on the surviving magazine at Cumberland House, but the framing should be of the old Canadian type, not the recent form now on the Cumberland structure. The underside of the eaves should be covered with metal.

e. The door should be patterned on that at Cumberland House, except that it should be covered with copper instead of iron. Hard ware should be of brass where practicable and fastened with spikes or rivets and not screws. The padlock should be a copy of an actual specimen recovered at the fort site or of an original one of similar type.

f. It is suggested that archeologists remain alert for samples of the tin roofing used at Fort Vancouver and that further efforts be made to determine the fate of those reported by Mr. Caywood.