FISH
Millennial fishing at Shonitkwu
Paul Kane. FALLS at COLVILLE, 1847. Courtesy of Royal Ontario Museum (c) ROM, Toronto.
METIS
Euro-Indigenous fur trappers and socio-cultural bridge-builders
FUR
Fort Colvile: Hudson's Bay Company's Fur Trading and Agriculture
The Hudson's Bay Company started constructing this new interior fur trade depot above Shonitkwu (Kettle Falls) in late 1825 and was completed in late spring of 1826. It was second only in importance to Fort Vancouver in the administration of the interior HBC Columbia District as well as being the interior commercial hub for goods and produce supplies to traders, fur trappers, indigenous natives and missionaries.
G*LD
Prospectors became Settlers
INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY
Rockies to Pacific
Between 1857-1861, British and American military surveyors completed the division of North America from the Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific shore. Interior administrative headquarters for these survey teams were both in the Colville District. The British survey team constructed for itself a log cabin hamlet two miles north of Fort Colvile-HBC; while the American surveyors worked from their 1859-constructed U.S. Army post at Fort Colville, 12 miles inland and southeast of the Bay's trading post on the Columbia River.
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FORT COLVILLE
U.S. Army, 1859-1882
Image courtesy of Stevens County [WA] Historical Society via WIKI Commons.
Portland, Oregon: Buchtel & Stolte Photographers, April 1, 1879 photo.
PIONEER RETAILERS
Meyers, Oppenheimer, Hofstetter
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