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| Title | Drawing of the Hudson's Bay Company's fort at Victoria, n.d. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | On verso of image: H.B. Co's Fort at Victoria, BC. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (Tacoma 1913)
Filed in British Columbia--Victoria |
| Contextual Notes | Prior to Fort Victoria, Fort Vancouver in present-day Washington was the main Hudson's Bay Company depot of the Pacific Coast. The wrecking of two Hudson's Bay Ships on a sandbar at the Columbia River's mouth in 1829 and again in 1830 spurred the need for a easily accessible trading post. The further quarrelling between Britain and the United States over control of the Oregon Territory finalised the Hudson's Bay Company's decision to establish a northern trading post.
In 1842 George Simpson, Governor of the HBC in British North America ordered the establishment of a new fort, anxious to ensure their presence on Vancouver Island and in British Territory. Simpson felt confident that the 49th parallel would become the international boundary leaving Fort Vancouver out in the cold, as it did with the Oregon Treaty of 1846.
James Douglas, at that time was posted at Fort Vancouver, and was later chosen to find a new accessible harbour to establish a trading post. In March of 1842 under Simpson's advice, Douglas came across what was then referred to as Camosack (known today as Victoria). Construction on Fort Victoria begain in 1943. [Source: Hudson's Bay Company at Victoria web site, http://collections.ic.gc.ca/fortvictoria/fortlife/index.html] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Drawings |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Hudson's Bay Company--Drawings |
| Location Depicted | Canada--British Columbia--Victoria |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC0786
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| Negative Number | UW10957 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Canada Photograph Collection. PH Coll 393 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004. |
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