VANCOUVER COAST & MOUNTAINS
By Christa Hanson
Fall Asleep in the Present Wake Up in the Past
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trange things can happen in the birthplace of British Columbia. When you visit Fort Langley you
could fall asleep in the present and wake up in the past. Your diary from that day in 1858 might sound something like this.
“Te men of the Hudson’s Bay Company have travelled from many parts of the world to arrive here at Fort Langley. Scots (mostly from the Orkney Islands), Métis, English, Hawaiians (or Sandwich Islanders as they are called), all chose to forge a new life for themselves on this unknown frontier. What the newcomers called wilderness, that once reigned over all of the Lower Mainland, was populated with First Nations communities – the trading partners and soon to be family of the HBC. Te Hudson’s Bay men make their
FORT LANGLEY (top), The Fort at Night, (above) Fort Langley interpreter, (opposite page clockwise) Dig into Dessert, On the shore of the Fraser River, Shopping in the town of Fort Langley, Hallowe’en celebrations and the Cranberry Festival
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homes, marry into the First Nations’ families and raise their children here. Te Fur Trade keeps business booming for a while; beaver, otter and a myriad of other animals native to the West Coast bring bounteous profit to the Hudson’s Bay Company. Brigades arrive every year, bringing their own fur bales from further north. Every year that bounty is loaded onto ships to be taken back to England
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