The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
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The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
Canada -- Biography; Canada -- History
=Fort Simpson.= On coast of British Columbia, near Alaskan boundary.
=Index=: =D= Built by Hudson's Bay Company, at mouth of Naas River,
1831, 116; moved forty miles south, 1834, 120. =Bib.=: Walbran, _British
Columbia Coast Names_ (under _Port Simpson_).
=Fort Stanwix.= On Mohawk River, near Lake Oneida. =Index=: =Dr=
Unsuccessful attack on, 173. =Hd= Abandonment of by rebels, 151.
=Fort Stikine.= On Stikine River. =Index=: =D= Hudson's Bay Company
post, handed over by Russians, 121-122; Rae left in charge of, 122.
=Fort Taku.= =D= Built by Hudson's Bay Company, on Taku River, 121;
known as Fort Durham--erected 1840, 122; abandoned, 1843, 178-179.
=Fort Ticonderoga.= _See_ Ticonderoga. =Index=: =Dr= Fort seized by
American rebels, 82. =Hd= Carleton's raiders penetrate beyond, 149.
=Fort Umpqua.= =D= Founded in 1832 by Hudson's Bay Company, on route
from Fort Vancouver to San Francisco Bay, 132.
=Fort Vancouver.= On Columbia River. =Index=: =D= Established by
Hudson's Bay Company, in 1824, 47; depot of western department, 72;
described, 72, 110; built by John McLoughlin, 111, 113; its importance,
111; range of its operations, 111-112; agriculture at, 128; abandoned,
1849, 145. =Bib.=: Bancroft, _History of the North-West Coast_; Laut,
_Conquest of the Great North-West_.
=Fort Vincennes.= =WM= On Wabash River, 22.
=Fort Walla Walla.= Hudson's Bay Company post, on Columbia River.
=Index=: =D= Distributing point for Snake River country, 7.
=Fort Wayne.= =Bk= Expedition to, under Captain Muir, 274, 275.
=Fort William.= At mouth of Kaministiquia River, Lake Superior. =Index=:
=D= Headquarters of North West Company, 59. =MS= Replaces Grand Portage,
13; named after William MacGillivray, 100; Selkirk at, with the De
Meuron soldiers, 189. =Bib.=: Burpee, _Search for the Western Sea_;
Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_.
=Fort William Henry.= On Lake George. =Index=: =WM= Siege and
destruction of, 37, 42-46; ensuing massacre, 47-52. =Bib.=: Parkman,
_Montcalm and Wolfe_.
=Fort Yale.= =D= Founded in 1848, by the Hudson's Bay Company, on Fraser
River, 186.
=Fort Yukon.= Built by Alexander Hunter Murray of the Hudson's Bay
Company, at the mouth of Porcupine River in 1847. John Bell had
descended the Porcupine to its mouth in 1844. Although Fort Yukon was on
Russian territory, the Company maintained it until the sale of Alaska to
the United States, when they were summarily ejected, 1869. The Company
thereupon moved up the Porcupine to the Ramparts, where they built
Rampart House, then supposed to be on British territory, but proved to
be west of the boundary. The fort was moved twelve miles up the river,
and in 1890 was again moved to the eastward. =Index=: =D= Built by
Murray (not Bell) near mouth of Porcupine River, 125. =Bib.=: Murray,
_Journal_ (Canadian Archives, 1910).
=Forts.= _See also_ Carillon, Chambly, Crown Point, Frontenac,
Kaministiquia, Miami, Michilimackinac, Niagara, St. Johns, Sorel, Three
Rivers, Ticonderoga, Western Forts.
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