The Fort Galleries
"At two corners of the fort not occupied by the bastions were galleries whence a view was obtained over the tops of the stockades."
B.C. Archives
J.R. Anderson Memoirs
AddMss 1912, volume 8, file #6
" The galleries at the opposite corners of the fort... were in constant demand as points of vantage whence to catch sight of the one yearly vessel from England bearing
supplies for the entire country from Victoria to the far distant outposts in the Rocky Mountains and private cases containing the latest Paris fashions for the wives and daughters of the various gentlemen connected with the Company.
As soon as the ship had approached sufficiently near; her own boats; assisted by a flotilla of canoes some fifty or more from the Stsamiss village towed her in to her anchorage and then the guns belched forth their welcome and which, by the way, was preceded by one from a fragment of an old musket, by the mischievous boys of the school, to the infinite disgust of the
officers of the fort and by whose orders one of the men was dispatched to chivey us out."
B.C Archives
J.R. Anderson Memiors
AddMss 1912, volume 8, file #4
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