The Colonial Despatches: Fort Similkameen

Fort Similkameen

This HBC fort, or post, in the Similkameen Valley, and its provisions are mentioned in a document enclosed in this despatch. This despatch notes that it is 70 miles distant from Hope, roughly the location of present-day Keremeos.

Mentions of this place in the documents

Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 28 February 1861, CO 60:10, no. 4318, 127.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 28 January 1861, CO 60:10, no. 3007, 43.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 26 January 1861, CO 60:10, no. 2752, 21.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 16 July 1861, CO 60:10, no. 8719, 301.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 4 June 1861, CO 60:10, no. 6744, 264.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 22 April 1861, CO 60:10, no. 5166, 168.

Places in this document

Hope

Similkameen Valley

The Colonial Despatches Team. Fort Similkameen. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/fort_similkameen.html.

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Colonial Despatches

The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871

Fort Similkameen