14. Bastions and Gardens
Fort becomes self-sufficient
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Norma & Pat McGraw |
| Note the Bastion and some of the extensive fort gardens, which were grown to feed the residents and to trade with visitors. Settlers were arriving daily and there was a great need for cultivated foods. In the mid-1840’s the Hudson Bay Company established a large salmon cannery that processed about 2,000 barrels of wild salmon a year for the use of its employees and for export to California, Alaska, and Hawaii. By the 1880’s more than fifty canneries were in operation along the Columbia River. |