Exploratory excavations at Fort Vancouver
Caywood LR. 1947. Exploratory excavations at Fort Vancouver. National Park Service, Department of the Interior
It is hoped that the Fort Vancouver archeological excavations will help to stimulate the people of the West to preserve the concrete examples of their past, as evidenced in this site and others. Archeological explorations at the site of the Hudson’s Bay Company post of Fort Vancouver have demonstrated a procedure and a technique which should become standard for historical areas of the West. By means of full documentary research followed by expert archeological excavations, one of the great historic sites of the Northwest has been located after years of uncertainty as to its exact location. Research of this kind is fundamental, if the vestiges of our past are to be saved. In addition to knowledge gained, such a procedure helps to interpret the area to the public. Problems of preservation and land acquisition for that preservation are also facilitated. It is hoped that the Fort Vancouver archeological excavations will help to stimulate the people of the West to preserve the concrete examples of their past, as evidenced in this site and others.