Fort Vancouver excavations - V, Flagstaff and Belfry
Hoffman JJ and Ross LA. 1973. Fort Vancouver excavations - V, Flagstaff and Belfry. Fort Vancouver Excavations V. National Park Service, Department of the Interior
This is the fifth in a series of interim reports detailing the findings of the Fort Vancouver Archeological Project. Scope, purposes, and methods of the current project were outlined in the first report of this series. Briefly, our purpose is to provide archeological support for an ambitious program of reconstruction at Fort Vancouver. This means the archeological gathering of structural and other artifactual evidence necessary for architectural designing and historical planning of reconstruction. This fifth report varies from our past efforts in that it does not deal with large buildings of the Fort. Our subjects here are two small but functionally important structures. A flagstaff was an important feature of Hudson’s Bay Company posts. This was especially true at Fort Vancouver which functioned as the administrative and logistical center for Company activities in western North American during the second quarter of the 19th century.