Husdon's Bay Company (HBC) Depot, Fort Langley Brigade Days 2010 Bag-pipers, Fur Trade Voyagers and Frontier Life Reenactment
VIDEO - Bagpipers and Voyagers www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVQaYbvn6I
Fort Langley BC was built in 1827 by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) as a trading post to enable the fur trade and was later expanded to include farming, salmon and cranberry production. Each year during the BC Day long weekend, a reenactment of the fur trade activities is held at the fort. Bag-pipers, soldiers in uniform, staff and volunteers dressed in authentic pioneer and frontier costumes gather at the banks of the Fraser River to greet the fur trappers (aka voyagers) who arrive in canoes to bring back pelts of beavers, otters and other small animals they have caught or traded with the First Nations to Fort Langley before shipping off the finished products to England and other markets.
[Photos by Ray Van Eng www.vancouver21.com ]
Husdon's Bay Company (HBC) Depot, Fort Langley Brigade Days 2010 Bag-pipers, Fur Trade Voyagers and Frontier Life Reenactment
VIDEO - Bagpipers and Voyagers www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVQaYbvn6I
Fort Langley BC was built in 1827 by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) as a trading post to enable the fur trade and was later expanded to include farming, salmon and cranberry production. Each year during the BC Day long weekend, a reenactment of the fur trade activities is held at the fort. Bag-pipers, soldiers in uniform, staff and volunteers dressed in authentic pioneer and frontier costumes gather at the banks of the Fraser River to greet the fur trappers (aka voyagers) who arrive in canoes to bring back pelts of beavers, otters and other small animals they have caught or traded with the First Nations to Fort Langley before shipping off the finished products to England and other markets.
[Photos by Ray Van Eng www.vancouver21.com ]