FORT VANCOUVER The History of Fort Vancouver and its Physical Structure

¹Except where otherwise indicated, the two following chapters are based upon Dr. W. Kaye Lamb's introductions to the three volumes of The Letters of John McLoughlin, edited by E. E. Rich (H. B. S., IV, VI, VII); and upon appropriate chapters in F. W. Howay, W. N. Sage, and H. F. Angus, British Columbia and the United States (Toronto; New Haven; London, 1942); and Winther, The Great Northwest.

²See Parker, Journal, 314-315, 347.

³Townsend, Narrative, 296.

⁴Howay, Sage, and Angus, British Columbia and the United States, 88.

⁵H. B. S., IV, xciii; VII, p. 91, note 2. The Company's California activities are well described in Anson S. Blake, "The Hudson's Bay Company in San Francisco," in California Historical Society Quarterly, XXVIII (June, 1949), 97-112; (September, 1949), 243-258.

⁶"Jason Lee Memorial Address," in Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, VII (September, 1906), 230.

⁷H. B. S., IV, cxxiii.

⁸Hulbert, The Call of the Columbia, 180.

⁹H. B. S., VII, xxx-xxxi.

¹⁰For information on this matter, see Howard J. Burnham, "Government Grants and Patents in Vancouver, Washington," in Oregon Historical Quarterly, XLVIII (June, 1947), 7-8; H. B. S., VII, 107-108, 237-238.

¹¹H. B. S., IV, cxxvii; VI, xii.

¹²T. C. Elliott, "Peter Skene Ogden, Fur Trader," in Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, XI (September, 1910), 262-263; W. N. Sage, "James Douglas on the Columbia, 1830-1849," in ibid., XXVII (December, 1926), 379-380.

¹³H. B. S., IV, 155.

¹⁴J. McLoughlin to G. Simpson, March 20, 1840, as quoted in W. Kay Lamb, "The Founding of Fort Victoria," in British Columbia Historical Quarterly, VII (April, 1943), 77.

¹⁵G. Simpson to Governor and Committee, Honolulu, March 1, 1842, as quoted in Lamb, "The Founding of Fort Victoria," in British Columbia Historical Quarterly, VII (April, 1943), 81.

¹⁶H. B. S., VII, 177-191.

¹⁷H. B. S., VII, p. 87, note 3.

¹⁸Ibid., 75-94.

¹⁹See Howay, Sage, and Angus, British Columbia and the United States, 128-129.

²⁰Howay, Sage, and Angus, British Columbia and the United States, 128-130.

²¹Ibid., 130-131.