"A Place So Dull and Dreary: The Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Okanagan, 1821-1860"
http://localhistory.vpl.ca/link/cni44866
- Author
- Keith, H. Lloyd
- Date
- Spring 2007
- Geographic Location
- Washington - Fort Vancouver
- British Columbia - Okanagan
- Material Type
- magazine article
- Abstract
- "Few fur trade clerks coveted a posting at Fort Okanagan, built on an alluvial bar near the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers in present-day Washington State. Ross Cox found it 'a horribly dull place.' .. Those arriving from Fort Vancouver by way of the Columbia would exchange their b…
- Author
- Keith, H. Lloyd
- Role
- Author
- Date
- Spring 2007
- Corporation
- Northwest Company of Canada
- Hudson's Bay Company
- Geographic Location
- Washington - Fort Vancouver
- British Columbia - Okanagan
- Material Type
- magazine article
- Physical Description
- illustrations
- maps
- Source Title
- Pacific Northwest Quarterly
- Volume
- 98
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 78-94
- Abstract
- "Few fur trade clerks coveted a posting at Fort Okanagan, built on an alluvial bar near the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers in present-day Washington State. Ross Cox found it 'a horribly dull place.' .. Those arriving from Fort Vancouver by way of the Columbia would exchange their boats for horses at Fort Okanagan before heading north to Kamloops and beyond into New Caledonia."