A Stockade of
A view of the reconstructed Fort Vancouver and its period garden. The garden was a horticultural showpiece for John McLoughlin, the chief factor of the fort.
BARBOUR’S PHOTOGRAPHY
Fort Vancouver, the regional headquarters of England’s Hudson’s Bay Company, was a major 19th-century trading post. More than 50 years of research have made it a major archaeological site. By Dennis Johnson 30
Fire steels, which preceded matches, were combined with strike-a-lights (flints) to start fires. These replicated fire steels are based on examples recovered from archaeological deposits.
spring • 2003
