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From 1825 to 1846, Fort Vancouver's waterfront was one of the busiest shipping ports west of the Rocky Mountains and served as the western economic artery of the Hudson's Bay Company, linking a wilderness of wealth to a powerful trading network. Trading vessels large and small moored at a wharf there and supplied a variety of goods to distant ports. Company ships exported northwest goods throughout the world, including fur to England, salted salmon to Hawaii, and lumber to South America. Fort Vancouver was the grand emporium of the Company's trade west of the Rocky Mountains, as well as within the Oregon Territory and beyond it, from California to Kamschatka.
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Vancouver, Washington · United States
