Fort Vancouver Historic Structures Report

1. F. G. Young, ed., The Correspondence and Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1831-6, Sources of the History of Oregon, vol. 1, pts. 3-6 (Eugene, Oregon, 1899), p. 176.

2. H.B.C., District Statements, York Factory, 1832-1835, H.B.C.A., B.239/1/5, MS, p. 141. Arquoitte may have been a free trapper, because he was not credited with any wages during the year.

3. Dunn, Oregon Territory, p. 102.

4. Nellie Bowden Pipes, ed. and trans., "Translation of Extract from Exploration of Oregon Territory . . . Undertaken During the Years 1840, 1841 and 1842 by Eugene Duflot de Mofras," Oregon Historical Quarterly 26 (June, 1925): 153.

5. Joseph Schafer, ed., "Documents Relative to Warre and Vavasour's Military Reconnaissance in Oregon, 1845-6," Oregon Historical Quarterly 10 (March, 1909): 85.

6. Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [9]:90.

7. Ibid., [2]:176—77.

8. For further examples, see ibid., [11]:74; Thomas Jefferson Farnham, Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Territory (Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1841), p. 194.

9. Louis R. Caywood, Exploratory Excavations at Fort Vancouver, 1947, mimeographed ([San Francisco:] United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, [1947]), Plate 3 (Plate XXVIII in this vol).

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

11. During archeological excavations in 1952 a number of tin shingles were found at the Root House site. It was believed that these may have been from the roof of the Powder Magazine and that they may have been dumped as trash when the army demolished that structure. Alan Cherney, "Cataloguing Artifacts, Vancouver Vault, January 2, 1966-April 19, 1968," typescript (Vancouver, Washington: National Park Service (Fort Vancouver National Historic Site), 1968, p. 19.

12. Testimony of H. A. Tuzo , in Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [2:]176-77; Testimony of D. Mactavish, in Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [11:]74.

13. Caywood, Exploratory Excavations, p. 9 and Plate 3.

14. J. J. Hoffman, Memorandums to Regional Archeologist, Pacific Northwest Region, National Park Service, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, July 2 and August 1, 1973, MSS, in files of Pacific Northwest Regional Office, Seattle.

15. Ibid.

It was many years after the establishment of Fort Vancouver before a convenient local source of lime was discovered. [16] At least as early as 1832 the Company was importing coral from the Hawaiian Islands for building purposes. In that year Duncan Finlayson shipped McLoughlin enough coral from Oahu to make 300 barrels of lime , and with the shipment he sent instructions for burning the coral in a kiln. [17]

16. A specimen of limestone from the Willamette Valley was brought to Fort Vancouver in 1839, but evidently the source was not deemed satisfactory, because the post continued to import coral from the Hawaiian Islands. William Fraser Tolmie, "Diary," Washington Historical Quarterly 23 (July, 1932): 214.

17. H.B.C.A., B.2 23/b/8, MS, fol. 42d.

18. Henry J. Warre, "Travel and Sport in North America, 1839-1846, by General Sir Henry J. Warre, K.C.B," ed. Felix W. Warre, MS, in Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, p. 109.

19. D. H. Vinton to Maj. Gen. T. S. Jesup, Washington, March 29, 1850, in U.S., Congress, House, 31st Cong., 2d sess., Exec. Doc. No. 1, pt. 2 (Serial 595), p. 251.

20. Caywood, Exploratory Excavations, Plate 3; Caywood, Final Report, p. 11.

21. H.B.S., 4:1.

22. For example, see H.B.C.A., B.239/n/71, MS, fols. 155-155d.

23. Hoffman and Ross, Fort Vancouver Excavations--I, pp. 58-65, 75.

24. Barker, Letters of Dr. John McLoughlin, p. 233.

25. Cherney, "Cataloguing Artifacts," p. 19.

26. Caywood, Final Report, pp. 41-42.

27. J. J. Hoffman, Memorandums to Regional Archeologist, July 2 and August 1, 1973.

28. J. J. Hoffman, Memorandum to Regional Archeologist, August 1, 1973.

29. Ibid.

30. Cumberland House magazine details are based on a field visit, September 16, 1967.

31. Visit to Lower Fort Garry National Historic Park, September 20, 1967. The door itself is missing.

32. H.B.C., York Factory Indent Book, 1823-1838, H.B.C.A., B.239/n/71, MS, fol. 158.

33. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/155, MS, p. 102.

34. Glazebrook, Hargrave Correspondence, p. 325.

35. F. A. Griffiths , The Artillerist's Manual, and British Soldier's Compendium, 2d ed. (Woolwich, England: Printed by E. Jones for the author, 1840), p. 85.

36. According to a report of 1874, powder was stored in the old stone store at Fort William. [National Heritage Limited,] Fort William, Hinge of a Nation ([Toronto, 1970]), p. 39; Gunpowder was stored in the warehouse of Fort Simpson on the Northwest Coast in 1868. Teichmann, A Journey to Alaska, p. 108.