HMS Modeste and USS Shark
The HMS Modeste and the USS Shark both spent time in the Columbia River, anchored off the HBC headquarters of Fort Vancouver. In reading articles about these two historic warships,…
Read moreThe two British spies, Henry James Warre and Mervin Vavasour, left the Columbia district in the outgoing York Factory Express of March, 1846. We have Henry Warre’s York Factory Express…
Read moreThe HBC men had been settled at Fort Vancouver, on the banks of the Columbia River, for decades before the first of the Missionaries came west to establish permanent settlements…
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