Fort Vancouver Historic Structures Report

1. Lowe, "Private Journal," pp. 21, 22.

2. Hoffman and Ross, Fort Vancouver Excavations--V, p. 8.

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

4. Lowe, "Private Journal," p. 31. For a discussion on whether the Modeste arrived on November 29 or 30, see the previous chapter.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid., p. 32 (entry for January 5, 1846).

7. Ibid. (entry for January 9, 1846).

8. Ibid., p. 34.

9. Ibid., p. 42.

10. Gough, Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast, p. 74.

11. Testimony of Lloyd Brooke in Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [8:]128.

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

13. For a discussion of the fate of the Company's buildings at Fort Vancouver, see Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver, pp. 157-60.

14. H.B.C.A., B.2231z/5, MS, fol. 265.

15. Caywood, Final Report, p. 14.

16. Ibid., pp. 13-14, and Excavation Drawings, sheet 8.

17. For a clear statement demonstrating this point, see the entry in John Work's journal at Fort Colvile for October 1, 1825, in T. C. Elliott, ed., "Journal of John Work, Sept. 7th-Dec. 14th, 1825," Washington Historical Quarterly 5 (July, 1914): 169.

18. Testimony of J. W. Nesmith, in Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [9:]34.

19. The Gibbs drawing of 1851 (Plate XVIII, vol. I) shows what apparently is the New Office with a pyramidal roof, but the other pictorial evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of a hipped roof.

20. Inventory of articles in use in office, 1848, in H.B.C.A., B.223/d/181, MS, pp. 162-63.

21. H.B.C.A., B.239/n/71, MS, fols. 139d.-140; see also p. 266 in vol. I of this report.

22. Visit to Lower Fort Garry National Historic Park, September 20, 1967.

23. Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [8:]128.