In order to develop historically correct stories, I have been reading numerous historical documents and scholarly sources.  Students in my DTC 354 Digital Storytelling class have worked with me during the spring 2012 to annotate these works so that the information is available to other scholars interested this historical period and the Fort.

A special thank you also goes to Greg Shine, Chief Ranger & Historian Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, and Donna Sinclair, Program Manager, Center for Columbia River History, for their help in developing the scholarship for this phase of the project.

Primary Sources

Beaver, Herbert.  Reports and letters, 1836-1838, of Herbert Beaver, chaplain to the Hudson’s Bay Company and missionary to the Indians at Fort Vancouver.  Ed. Thomas E. Jessett. Portland, Or. : Champoeg Press, 1959.

Chambers, Elizabeth Harrison.  Incidents in the life of Elizabeth Harrison Chambers : collected from memory’s pages and compiled November 23rd, 1910, after the hand on the dial-plate of time had measured me off 82 years.  1910.

McLoughlin, John.  Letters Written at Fort Vancouver 1829-1832.  Ed. Burt Brown Barker.  Portland:  Binfords and Mort (Oregon Historical Society), 1948.

—.  The Letters of John McLoughlin from Fort Vancouver to the governor and committee.  Ed. E.E. Rich ;   introduction by W. Kaye Lamb.  London : Published by The Champlain Society for the Hudson’s Bay Record Society, 1941-1944.

Townsend, John K. 1834.  Narrative of a Journey.  Corvallis, OR:  OSU Press, 1999.

Secondary Sources

Armitage, Susan.  “Making Connections:  Gender, Race, and Place in Oregon County.” One Step Over the Line.  Ed. Jameson and McManus.  Alberta, CAN:  U of Alberta Press, 2008.

Boyd, Robert.  The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence.  Seattle:  U of Washington Press, 1999.

Brown, Jennifer.  Strangers in Blood:  Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country.  Vancouver:  U of BC Press, 1980.
Report by Grace Nguyen 

Campbell, Marjorie.  The North West Company.  NY, NY:  St. Martin’s Press, 1957.

Carley, Caroline.  “Historical and Archaeological Evidence of 19th Century Fever Epidemics and Medicine at Hudson’s Bay Company’s Fort Vancouver.” Historical Archaeology.  Vol. 15, No. 1, 1981.
Report by Vernon Blystone

Cuti, Celeste and Theresa Langford.  ”Furnishing Plan for Houses 1 and 2, Fort Vancouver Village.”  National Park Service.  Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.  August 2009.
Report by Alyssa Blanton
Report by Saundra Beauchaine 

Fiske, Joanne.  ”Colonization and the Decline of Women’s Status:  The Tsimshian Case.”  Feminist Studies 7.3 (1991): 509-35.
Report by Cassidy Sargent

Hussey, John A.  “Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.”  Denver : Denver Service Center, National Park Service, 1972-1976.

—. The history of Fort Vancouver and its physical structure. Tacoma : Washington State Historical Society, 1957?.
Report by Mark Van Tassel

—.  “The Women of Fort Vancouver.”  1977.  Online: http://www.nps.gov/fova/historyculture/historical-studies.htm

Jackson, John.  Children of the Fur Trade:  Forgotten Metis of the Pacific Northwest.  Corvallis, OR:  OSU Press, 2008.
Report by Michael Unverzagt
Report by Katrina Arnold 

Kubik, Barb.  “A Very Neat and Beautiful Village.”  Unpublished text?

Peterson, Jacqueline. The new peoples: being and becoming métis in North America.  Minneapolis:  U of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Ray, Arthur J.  Indians in the Fur Trade.  Toronto:  U of Toronto Press, 1998.

Robinson, Greg.  Chinook Nation.  Volume 1, 3^rd Edition.  Online:  http://www.chinooknation.org/Default.aspx?PageContentID=3&tabid=38
Report by Sarah Robison-Mathes 

Roulstone, Thomas B. “A Social History of Fort Vancouver 1829-1849” Thesis. Utah State Univ, 1975.
Report by Sean Evans 

Sinclair, Donna.  “Voice of the Past: Re-visioning this place: Chinookan Cultural Persistence on the lower Columbia.” Vancouver Voice, Volume 3, Issue 20, August 27, 2009.

Shine, Greg.  “Interpretation in the Fort Vancouver Village.” Northwest Cultural Resources Institute Report. August 2010.
Report by Katie Unverzagt

Sleeper-Smith, Susan.  Indian Women and French Men.  Boston:  U of Massachusetts Press, 2001.

Van Kirk, Sylvia.  Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society.  Norman, OK:  U of Oklahoma Press, 1983.

Williams, Jacqueline.  The Way We Are:  Pacific Northwest Cooking, 1843-1900.  Pullman:  WSU Press, 1996.

http://dtc-wsuv.org/354/fova/Williams.doc

Report by Ruth Stauffer
Report by Joseph Finazzo
Report by Isabela Oliveira