Series MS-2955 - Fort Defiance site investigation photographs

Adventure Cove, Site Of Fort Defiance Archeological Exploration Of Fort Defiance, Bricks From The Sea Bottom Adventure Cove, Site Of Fort Defiance Adventure Cove, Site Of Fort Defiance Adventure cove, site of Fort Defiance.  Looking across to wharf site fromt fort site. Fort Defiance wharf site - Archeological Exploration of Fort Defiance, Bricks at the sea bottom. ... Beach scene; site of Fort Defiance; Adventure Cove Looking north-west entrance to cove - haystack Mountain in back of drawing. Archeological dig of Fort Defiance.  Discoverer Ken Gibson shows or uncovers Captain Greys fire pit. The Columbia's winter quarters in Adventure Cove. "Winter Quarters", American trading vessel "Columbia" at winter quarters on C... The "wharf" from north looking south; Fort Defiance. A child named Brad holding bricks found at the Fort Defiance wharf site. Rock Bluff in Adventure Cove, Fort Defiance. The "Pile" from the north, looking south at "wharf"; Fort Defiance. Fort Defiance, looking north. Fort Defiance; Adventure Cove, Meares Island, from the east. Ron McLeod diving at Fort Defiance. Mayor George Nicholson, and unidentified other; Fort Defiance. Mr. Ken Gibson, Fort Defiance.

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Fort Defiance site investigation photographs

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MS-2955

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51 photographs : b&w and col.

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The series consists of photographs documenting the search for and excavation of the site of Fort Defiance, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in 1966 and 1968. Nicholson, as an amateur historian, was involved in this project with Tofino resident Kenneth Gibson and Donald H. Mitchell of the University of Victoria. The series includes several photos of H.R. McMillan during his visit to the site during its excavation in 1968.

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Donated to the BC Archives by George Nicholson in 1978.

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Captain Robert Gray commanded the American trading ship “Columbia” on its voyage to the British Columbia coast in 1791-1792, where he built winter quarters on Meares Island. The site was protected as a 135-acre archaeological site on 23 December 1966. External source of information: Donald H. Mitchell, The Investigation of Fort Defiance: Verifications of the Site. BC Studies, No. 4, Spring 1970.

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Accession number(s): 197905-008

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  • Box: 000477-0001
  • Box: 002328-0019