Fort Vancouver
Historic Structures Report
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PLATES
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Plate XXXIII. Enlarged Section of Photograph of Fort
Victoria, showing Palisade and Gate Construction.
Notable features include flat-topped pickets, apparently peeled logs,
king posts, and single girth.
(Courtesy of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia,
Victoria.)
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Plate XXXIV. Enlarged Section of 1860 Photograph of
Northwest Stockade Angle, Fort Vancouver, 1860.
The stockade pickets vary in height (compare wall just north of the sale
shop on the left with that between bastion and granary on the right);
posts appear to be flat-topped; king posts seem to be behind pickets
(?); one row of girths.
(Courtesy of Provincial Archives of British Columbia,
Victoria.)
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Plate XXXV. Drawing of Fort St. James, British
Columbia, c. 1864-1867, by George Albert Frost.
The palisade posts clearly were pointed at this Hudson's Bay Company
post.
(Courtesy of the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary,
Alberta.)
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Plate XXXVI. Photograph of Hudson's Bay Company Post,
Fort Rupert, British Columbia.
Outer pickets definitely were pointed; main stockade was topped by a
horizontal timber cap.
(Courtesy of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia,
Victoria.)
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Plate XXXVII. Sketch of Fort Langley, 1858, by E. Mallandaine.
(Courtesy of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia, Victoria.)
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Plate XXXVIII. Fort Victoria, c.1858, Showing Stockage Exterior
and Gate Entrance. (Courtesy of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia,
Victoria.)
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Last Updated: 10-Apr-2003
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