Arriving in Swan Lake in Fraser Lake, B.C.
I manage to talk everyone into a side journey to a place call Fort St. James (FSJ). FSJ is 105 Km from Fraser Lake. Plan, take a trip and plan a picnic.
FSJ, has the oldest Hudson Bay Company (HBC) Fur Trading Post in town. If you can remember your world history, you would remember reading all about the HBC.
The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), chartered 2 May 1670, is the oldest incorporated joint-stock merchandising company in the English-speaking world. HBC was a fur trading business for most of its history, a past that is entwined with the colonization of British North America and the development of Canada.
The main reason I wanted to go to Fort St. James National Historic Site.
In 1805 and 1806, the North West Company constructed the first two permanent fur trade posts west of the Rocky Mountains. The second, Fort St. James, became the centre of the northern fur trade district, known as New Caledonia. Although today it is restored to a single year in time, 1896, the story you will hear spans about one hundred and forty six years, starting with the arrival of the fur traders and ending in 1952, when the Hudson‘s Bay Company closed shop on the original site.
The years of early contact and the decades of trade between Carrier and the Euro-Canadian newcomers were an era of important changes and adjustments. As you wander among the historic buildings, you will discover that each of them is a cultural treasure. Here you will meet and talk to site interpretive staff in period costume. You will see that Fort St James is a place of many stories, and that the array of events and experiences have had different meanings and implications for different people.
Photos from around town.
The one Thing I want to point out, and that is if you read the whole blog, we would never have found this quant place and information if we had stayed the standard route.
There is even a 50amp campground in town $. Right next to the lake. We plan on visiting next time we come back, instead of Fraser lake. We will split up where we stay.
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Safe travels and journeys
DaGirls Rv AkA Gus
Susan, Dakota, Tilly and me
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