Fort Vancouver was a 19th-century fur trading post built in the winter of 1824–1825. It was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department...
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Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area, the 25th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Originally established in 1825 around Fort Vancouver, a fur-trading...
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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in the states of Washington and Oregon. The National Historic Site...
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Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries is a public library system in southwestern Washington state. The library district was established in 1950 as the first...
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John McLoughlin (section Fort Vancouver)
Superintendent of the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver from 1824 to 1845. He was later known as the "Father of Oregon" for...
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present-day Vancouver Vancouver Barracks, a former U.S. Army station near Fort Vancouver Vancouver Lake, a lake in Clark County, Washington Vancouver (1826...
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Fort Vancouver High School, known as FVHS and Fort Vancouver High School Center for International Studies, is a public high school located in Vancouver...
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James Douglas (governor) (category Colonial governors of British Columbia and Vancouver Island)
ceremony repeated almost a decade later at Fort Vancouver. Throughout part of 1828, Connolly was absent from Fort St. James, leaving Douglas in charge. Two...
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The Fort Vancouver Centennial half dollar, sometimes called the Fort Vancouver half dollar, is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States...
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moved the regional company headquarters to Fort Vancouver (modern Vancouver, Washington) in 1824. Fort Vancouver became the centre of a thriving colony of...
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