Events

The Fur Traders Encampment will represent a living history reenactment to commemorate the establishment of the first permanent American settlement in the Pacific NW by the Pacific Fur Company in 1811. Living history actors will represent not only the members of John Jacob's Astor company, but others involved in the fur trade in the Columbia region from the arrival of the first American party in 1811 to the end of the period of joint British-American occupancy of the Oregon Country in 1846. The encampment will include those interpreting a variety of the diverse peoples involved in the trade, including members of the Northwest Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, French Canadians, Hawaiians, and the Native Americans with whom the trade was carried on over the course of thirty-five years.
Demonstrations of fur trading, period crafts and activities will be an important part of the the encampment and will include period music or other entertainment. Volunteers from amongst the encampment participants will give brief historical orientations to visitors arriving at the encampment grounds.

This event runs Wednesday through Sunday.