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Built by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1843, Fort Victoria became the grand depot and headquarters of the Company’s Pacific fur trade after the Oregon boundary was drawn at the 49th parallel in 1846. Ships moored there to unload supplies for an extensive network of forts and to take on natural products for export, principally to Alaska, California and Hawaii. In 1849 the first Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Vancouver Island met in the fort. The last remaining buildings were dismantled in 1864, and only the mooring rings on the rocks below survive.
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