FOUNDING OF FORTS
IN the following list is contained the dates of the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s forts, past and present,in the territory which was formerly included in Oregon and New Caledonia. As no similar list has ever been heretofore published, it was with considerable difficulty that the dates were in every instance obtained, as they incidentally occur in a wide range of Western books. The list will in a measure outline the progress of the fur companies in covering a vast extent of country. There is an uncertainty about several of the dates given, but without access to the records of the Company in London, Eng., it is difficult to verify them.
| 1784 | Kodiak |
| 1798-1801 | Sitka |
| 1805 | Rocky Mountain Portage |
| " | Fort McLeod |
| " | Clatsop |
| 1806 | St. James |
| " | Fraser |
| 1807 | George |
| 1808 | Henry |
| " | Kootenai |
| 1811 | Astoria |
| " | Thompson |
| " | Flathead House |
| " | Fort Sheppard |
| " | Okanagan |
| " | Rocky Mountain House |
| " | Spokan House |
| 1813 | Kamloops |
| 1818 | Walla Walla |
| 1821 | Alexandria |
| " | Chilcotin |
| 1822 | Babine |
| 1824-5 | Vaucouver |
| 1825-6 | Colville |
| 1826 | Connolly |
| 1827 | Langley |
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| 1829 | Williammette Settlement |
| 1831 | [Old] Fort Simpson |
| 1832 | Umqua |
| " | Redoubt St. Dionysius |
| 1833 | McLaughlin |
| " | Nisqually |
| 1834 | Champoeg |
| " | Hall |
| " | Simpson |
| 1834 | Fort Yukon |
| 1835 | Essington |
| " | Boise |
| " | Rupert |
| 1837 | Cowlitz |
| 1838 | Dease |
| 1834-1840 | Stickeen |
| 1840 | Taku |
| " | Frances |
| 1842 | Pelly Banks |
| 1843 | Victoria |
| 1847 | Hope |
| 1848 | Fort Selkirk [Mouth Yukon] |
| 1852 | Yale |
| 1868 | Nanaimo |
| 1882 | Fort Tongass [Alaska] |
| 1882 | Juneau [Alaska] |
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CHURCHES--MISSIONS
| 1843 | First Mass V.I. (Father Baiduc) |
| 1847-51 | Oblate Missions |
| 1849 | Rev. Geo. Staines (Epis.) |
| 1852 | Bishops Demers and Lootens (R.C.) |
| 1855 | Rev. E. Cridge (Epis.) |
| 1857 | Rev. William Duncan (Epis. Missionary) |
| 1859 | Dr. Evans (Meth.) |
| 1860 | Bishop Hills (Epis. Missionary) |
| 1861-2 | Revs. Hail and Jamieson (Pres.) |
| 1863 | Bishop D’Herboniez (R.C.) |
| 1875-76 | Rev. E. Cridge (R.E.) |
| 1877 | Rev. W. Crane (Baptist) |
| 1887 | Salvation Army |
| 1888 | Rev. J. W. Pedley (Cong.) |