Fort Vancouver Historic Structures Report

1. J. McLoughlin to Capt. James Davison [Davidson], Fort Vancouver, August 19, 1826, in H.B.C., Correspondence Book, Fort Vancouver, 1826, H.B.C.A., B.223/b/2, MS, fol. 18.

2. For example, see the case of William Brown, discussed at length in Beaver, Reports and Letters, pp. 36-37; and H.B.S., 6:1-3.

3. Beaver, Reports and Letters, p. 86.

4. H.B.C., Correspondence Book, Fort Vancouver, 1838, H.B.C.A., B.223/b/21, MS, pp. 92-94; Correspondence Book, Fort Vancouver, 1838-1839, H.B.C.A., B.223/b/22, MS, fols. 4-4d, 5d-6.

5. Beaver, Reports and Letters, p. 76.

6. H.B.S., 8:41.

7. Lowe, "Private Journal," p. 7.

8. Several Canadians who deserted at the time of the fire but later returned were, however, put in irons. H.B.S., 7:44.

9. The best account of the Stikine affair and its aftermath is in ibid., 6:xxx—xlviii, 139, 340-82; 8:6—7, 19—21.

10. McLoughlin to Governor and Committee, Fort Vancouver, November 20, 1844, in ibid., 7:48-49.

11. Lowe, "Private Journal," pp. 22-23.

12. Ibid., p. 38.

13. Ibid., p. 46.

14. Ibid., p. 53.

15. Ibid., p. 64.

16. For citations of these inventories, see Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver, pp. 149-56.

17. "Proceedings of a board of officers, Fort Vancouver, June 15, 1860," A.G.O., Ore. Dept., Doc. File 212-S-1860, in National Archives; also printed in Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [9:]74-77.

18. Caywood, Final Report, p. 14; Hussey, History of Fort Vancouver, Plate XXXVII.

19. T. C. Elliott, "British Values in Oregon, 1847," Oregon Historical Quarterly 32 (March, 1931): 34; Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [2:]118-19.

20. Caywood, Final Report, p. 14, and Excavation Drawings, sheet 8.

21. The building that appears to be the Jail is most clearly seen in the Gibbs drawing of 1851 (Plate XVIII, vol. I), just inside the north palisade wall and to the left of the pyramidally-roofed structure that evidently is the New Office.

22. Caywood, Final Report, p. 14. Caywood states in his text that this privy was northeast of the Jail, but his map shows it to the northwest.

23. Such shakes, as well as strips of bark that were also extensively used for roofing, were sometimes held in place by transverse strips of wood or slats. See Plates XXXI, XXXVIII, and LVII, in vol. I. Such could well have been the case with the Jail.

24. H.B.C.A., B.223/b/22, MS, fols. 4-4d. In justice to Douglas, he evidently did offer the prisoners the option of bread and water "or the common rations allowed to the other servants of the place," and he gave orders that the men were not to be treated harshly and were to be allowed to go at large. H.B.C.A., B.223/b/21, MS, fols. 92-94.