The Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30

by Morag Maclachlan

After the War of 1812 the territory on the Pacific Slope between 54 40' and 42N. latitude was to be jointly occupied by Britain and the United States pending a final settlement. Fearful that the Columbia River would be lost to them, the Governor and COuncil of the Hudson's Bay Company decided to establish a base north of the 48th parallel. In the summer of 1827 a party left Fort Vancouver to found Fort Langley on the Lower Fraser to link fur-rich...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774806656
• ISBN13: 9780774806657
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30

I discovered this book while researching my family history. The bulk of it is daily entries by me who lived and worked at Fort Langley between 1827 and 1830. Fort Langley, constructed over the summer of 1827, was built for trading not military purposes, and was the first such construction on the Fraser River in what would become, in Nov 1858, British Columbia. If your family history has roots in the West Coast fur trade era, it is a valuable source of what life was like for those ancestors. Most of the fort's employees between 1827 and 1830 are mentioned by name in the assorted journals presented in this book. The contents include: -Illustrations and maps -Journal kept by George Barnston 1827-1828 -Journal kept by James McMillan and Archibald McDonald 1828-1829 -Journal kept by Archibald McDonald 1829-1830 -Journal kept by Archibald McDonald Feb-July 1830 -Letter book & other notes kept by Archibald McDonald -The Ethnographic Significance of the Fort Langley Journals by Wayne Suttles As well as appendices dealing with -The Clallam -McMillan's report to Governor & Council 15 feb 1828 -McDonald's report to Governor & Council 25 Feb 1830 -Biographies of Shashia & Simon Plamondon -Names in the Fort Langley Journals with notes, references, and index, 21 illustrations and 5 maps. A must have for the Pacific Slope historian.