Here we are arriving at the Fort Vancouver replica site. Can you see me on the sign? You cannot see the Fort yet because there is a winding path to get to the entrance. It has this so that you can see the re-enactments in the commons area several times a year when people pretend to be folks from the early days of the Fort.
This is the "Commons Garden" area just outside the Fort.
The gate is wide open so we can go right into the Fort. Can you see me? I am waiting on the bastion for Paulie to catch up to me. There is no charge until May. There is a tour guide three times a day but we came at a downtime -- that was ok because Paulie has been to the site many times and knew her way around. The ranger also told her to just enjoy herself and take as many photos as she wanted because "Flat Stanley" has been a frequent visitor to the Fort and if Flat Daniel was a friend of his, he was certainly most welcome also!
This tiny building is next to the small jail where prisoners legs were shackled to chains. This one was used like an office for the guard and the person who rang the bell. At the left of the photo, is a bell "tower." See the ladder rungs to climb it quickly and sound a warning?
The fur warehouse is in the background of this photo. I sure enjoyed looking at some fine pelts in there!
Tis building is the Indian Trade Shop. There are many other buildings that were at Fort Vancouver and one day they might be all rebuilt after research, archelogical digs to preserve artifacts and of course, needed money to go ahead and expand. The fort was a self sustaining village within secure walls.
Paulie did not take a photo of every building available but got many of them.
Here I am in the Bakery on their visitor sign -- that bisquit doesn't look very appetizing to me! I guess it is clay because otherwise the ants would have eaten it a long time ago. . .
These are replicas of the ovens in the Bakeshop.
These two cannons are in front of the Chief Factor's Residence, the biggest structure in the Fort. I am on one of them!
I am pretending to be the tour guide:
"This is the beautiful building where the Chief Factor lived. The clerks and officers at the Fort ate their meals in a huge dining room in this house. It was also a place for dances. Special visitors were welcomed to the Fort here. It has been restored with furnishings much like what could have been used in each room according to old records of the Fort. behind this big hosue is the huge building that housed the kitchen for the Chief Factor and his guests but it is also the residence of the cooks and those who helped in the kitchen. The best view of the kitchen house (side) is seen as you enter the gate."
Can you see me, Flat Daniel , on the rail leading up the stairs to the Chief Factor's house?
