The people coming over the Oregon trail and the Hudson Bay employees encountered tribes that were already devastated by contact with explorers and merchants from ships going along the coast starting in the mid 1700's. When Lewis and Clark came they said the tribes were lazy and unkempt. They were wrong. The tribes had been exposed to repeated waves of diseases for many years. Their numbers were only a fraction of what they had been before. The NW tribes were sophisticated living in large communities. They traded over vast distances. The tribes in Oregon were more impacted by disease than those in Wash. state.

@MrComradebuttons

2 ай бұрын

What about all the battling between the tribes? The wars had nothing to do with death toll?

@michaellavaughnrobinson

Ай бұрын

​@@MrComradebuttons yeah they conveniently never talk about the inter tribal conflicts...

@williamharris8367

Ай бұрын

​@@michaellavaughnrobinson Some topics are not to be discussed in public forums!

It sits near a very old military base in Vancouver where famous American Generals from the past spent time. Even US Grant. Down the road is Pearson Air Park and a very nice aviation museum. The Airfield is also very historic being one of the few original airfieds.

My 4th great grandfather worked for the Hudson Bay company and married an indigenous woman who was the daughter of chief Peopeomoxmox, who signed the treaty of 1855.🙂 This history is my ancestors history. Which is pretty awesome to see.😊

Highly recommend visiting for one of their candlelight tours - the reenactors are fantastic and they have encampments from various time periods set up outside the walls.

ANOTHER WINNER!!! I MISS TEA TIME. I have been so overwhelmed with work. Sending you hugs Alex.

Alex all your videos are great watches. Nice to see you adding to the many different subjects you cover, so much history, so little time..... Thanks to Alex the Historian for his time, work and posting.

@AlextheHistorian

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike, this video was a pretty interesting one to do!

@jetsons101

10 ай бұрын

If you make it back it looks like there is a little aviation museum close by "saw on google earth."@@AlextheHistorian

I'm from Vancouver, but now live in Portland. I've been inside the actual fort just once. I've walked around it before. Driven past it on the highway and Officer's Row hundreds of times growing up. Our dad used to drive us past it to go to the downtown Vancouver library to get books. There is also a railroad line that is opposite the Fort on the south side. Always trains with graffiti to look at there. Henry Weinhard had his first brewery in Vancouver. They still sell his famous beer locally. Henry is buried at River View Cemetery in Portland, Klearski The Kreeper made a video visiting his grave.

Great video, Alex. Thanks for introducing me to this Fort and for providing the interesting background details. Hope to see more videos about the beautiful Northwest in the future.

I went there as a kid. passed it as an adult a few times. Lives in the pnw my whole life.Thank you for making this.

I've lived in Vancouver and Portland for more than 20 years and have visited the fort many times with my dad who was fascinated by it as a child. I particularly recall Halloween events where staff pretend to be inhabitants from the past as you tour around and they ignore you which creates a cool experience. I even graduated from Fort Vancouver High School in 2009 and there's Hudsons Bay high school nearby the fort. Many of Vancouver residents are aware of Fort Vancouver. They even taught about it in Washington State History class Freshman year. I think you mentioned that not many people, even living in Vancouver are aware of its existence, unless I heard wrong, but it's a popular place to go for The Fourth of July and it's really close to the bridge to Jantzen Beach of Oregon which takes you to Portland. Or if you get to Portland on I-205, you see it on the way from junction 14. It is a really neat area. Coincidentally, I'm moving back to Vancouver from Portland next week where I'll be only a 5 min drive to the Fort or a 40 min walk which I enjoy walking a lot. I'll probably visit again since I haven't since I was young.

There is a similar style fort called Fort Langley which is east of Vancouver BC. Fort Langley is much smaller Hudson Bay Company fort. It's located on the Frazer River which placed the river within sight of the fort's guns.

Very cool video 😎👍

Very interesting. Thanks for the tour Alex :)))

I used to live there in Vancouver and once in a while go visit the fort❤

I grew up here, beautiful.

Excellent video. Thanks, I enjoyed it very much!

Love it! Thanks for the look at this classic, forgotten location. To think my dad and basically drove right past it and straight through rainy Portland on our way to San Francisco 24 years ago. That was the last time I was in the Pacific Northwest. Would've loved to have seen it. Reminds me of playing The Oregon Trail on Apple II and all the real old forts you stopped by on your long journey from Independence, MO to Willamette Valley, OR.

My family and I actually visited fort Vancouver about a year ago. Not gonna lie, it was pretty fun

Fascinating video. On my list of places to visit when I come to the USA!! 👍👍

Thanks for this history lesson. Great filming and informative narration.

@AlextheHistorian

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

We had our wedding rehearsal dinner at the Grant House restaurant in Officers Row. Thanks for making a vid about this hidden jem!

Thank you for reminding me of this place! I was there years ago and had completely forgot about it!

Now this video is under appreciated its so good!

I’ve been here 3-4 times since my first time as a small schoolboy. The last time was on my birthday, circa 2006 or so. The blacksmith shop was making a drill bit and my gf and I watched the process from beginning to end.

I didn't end up going here when I went to Washington/Oregon earlier this year, but I'm glad you're covering this. Hopefully next time 🙂

I've been there a few times, it's a nice place.

There's a lot of cool history in this area and it's nice to see it get some attention. Pearson Air Museum next door to the fort is worth a quick visit as well. Nice work with this.

@AlextheHistorian

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Peter!

I live walking distance from the fort, officer row & the veterans cemetery. Officer Row used to get so huge into decorating for all the holidays. Especially the 4th of July. Its windled down so much now. 😢

There was a man named Vancouver?? Man, people had some awesome last names back in the day! Nowadays we got names that we can barely name a town after! LOL I wanna go to that fort now!

@Linusgump

2 ай бұрын

Vancouver named the Fort, then they sailed up to the Peugeot Sound and he named everything up there, including Vancouver Island, where Vancouver, BC is at. So, (Fort) Vancouver, WA is older and therefore the original city of Vancouver. Take that, you Canuks. 😁

Thanks!

@AlextheHistorian

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, Dan!

Oh that's a fascinating place! Unfortunately even though you announced that this video was coming I didn't see it until now so something might be wrong with KZread again. A fun fact about hand-forged nails, a smith tasked with making nails was expected to make one a minute or faster, and because fuel was expensive back in the day it was done with one heating.

So cool! Those houses at the end look like the ones at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, where you can rent them and stay in them! We've done it twice, I think you'd enjoy it although it's pretty far north for you. I'll have to try and go down to ft Vancouver!

I walked there last summer.

I live in Vancouver, this was incredible ❤

Very interesting! This fort is similar to a few I’ve visited it Missouri, having been used in the civil war.

Very good!

Love this👍🏻😎

The Grant House used to have a restaurant in it. It was a nice place to eat, albeit a little more formal and expensive than most other places, but the food and service were excellent. That was dinner, I think lunch was more business casual, but still very elegant. I think Covid killed the restaurant, I’m not really sure.

@kathyh4804

Ай бұрын

Sadly Covid killed allot of places

You're right, I didn't know it exists! Looks pretty fascinating. Is it all reconstruction, or are some parts original? It often blows my mind when I think that these remote, pioneer settlements existed contemporaneously to huge modern buildings like Kings Cross Station. It's quite plausible that some of the people stationed there experienced both. The world sure was a very different place back then! I'd really to visit the Pacific Northwest one day. By the way, if you make it to Europe soon and like forts come visit my city, it's got one of the most interesting (and largest) forts around!

@AlextheHistorian

10 ай бұрын

The whole Stockade and village houses of the Fort are replicas of the originals since the burning of the Fort in 1866 had leveled everything. But photographs, blueprints, and over 2.9 million recovered artifacts aided the archeologists in faithfully rebuilding the whole Stockade in the late 1960s. To be honest the original buildings wouldn't have lasted this long anyway because the wet and seasonally frosty weather here would have rotted everything out by the turn of the 20th century. Outside the Stockade, the rest of the Fort built by the US Army, such as the barrack houses, the mansions, and the support facilities are all original to the early 1900s.

@LiberalsGettheBulletToo

10 ай бұрын

There's another one less than an hour's drive away across the border in Canada, Fort Langley. It seems to have more of it's original buildings, and they do gold panning and other activities in there for visitors. You will mostly get the surrounding town in image searches unless you add "National historic site" to the search.

1:02 Shipping furs straight from the West Coast to England seems like it's skipping a few major steps...

@Linusgump

2 ай бұрын

Why? Put it on the ship and the ship sails from the fort to England. What steps are missing in that statement?

Enjoyed the video. I did not know HBC was in Vancouver WA. They where a Canadian Company the was a Charter of the English Crown. Capt Vancouver and the English settlers were less than gracious to the Indigenous people. Death from Small Pox all but destroyed the local population. The settlers are documented to trade blankets the were infected with Small Pox as a way of eliminating the problem. Settlers from other countries like France did not take the same position so often HBC fort had the fort and the English on one side of the river and the indigenous, french and others on the other. The forts were seldom attacked and this fort was inland from the coast. The town of Astoria that was on the coast rivalled SanFrancisco for dominance of the West Coast. The Hudsons Bay Company is still here in Canada but is just a big department store now. Their history in building Canada is a great story, although there are some ugly truths from those times.

Hey! How are you? Any idea when your next QM live stream will be?

@AlextheHistorian

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately I don't know.

Neat

I know it. Went there in 3rd grade.

They use to do an awesome firework show every year on the 4th.

@AlextheHistorian

3 ай бұрын

From the Fort?

@Dee-kl9tn

2 ай бұрын

Yes they did. It was known as the biggest July 4th fireworks west of the Mississippi. So sad to hear they no longer do this.

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What local doesn't know about the fort. It's clearly visible from two freeways

First on another channel🎉😂

I often walk my dogs here

Hudson bay co? This has nothing to do eith the canadian department store right?

@AlextheHistorian

12 күн бұрын

It's the same company!

@Mnnyquintero

12 күн бұрын

@@AlextheHistorian hahahahahaha Ive Been on those stores, it feels like a cheap Macy's ripoff

@AlextheHistorian

12 күн бұрын

Lol. Oh wow, yeah I've never been there.

When people come to visit the fort, can they get to see what it's like to be shackled in the jail?

@AlextheHistorian

Ай бұрын

They can walk into the jail, but there is no shackling anyone.

So disappointed. I've always thought that the fort and buildings were original not recent recreations.

If you are going to a video about something, you really need to be accurate. The US fort was actually built in the 1850's, although I am sure many things came after. One of the buildings in the US fort is Grant house, where Grant lived prior to the Civil War.

@AlextheHistorian

2 ай бұрын

I list all of my sources in the description of the video. I did my diligence.

First on another channel🎉😂

@AlextheHistorian

10 ай бұрын

What other channel?

@EntyCVN65

9 ай бұрын

Uhhh uhhh totally not ocean liner designs 😰