CH-0047 · RESEARCH DRAFT

Fort Victoria established

1843 · Dating precision: year

The Hudson’s Bay Company established Fort Victoria in 1843; it became its principal British depot west of the Rockies after 1846.

Not publication-ready.

Historical place

Present Victoria, Vancouver Island

Present-day context

Present Victoria, Vancouver Island — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction

Peoples named in this record

Hudson’s Bay Company, Local First Nations

Review state

source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification

Catalogue updated

2026-10-11

French text

Translation pending; English research text shown.

Map context

No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.

No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.

Source evidence

• Fort Victoria

  Parks Canada · institutional history · Review: search excerpt

  Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-11. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.

  Institutional interpretation is not automatically independent corroboration. Consult nation-authored histories and underlying records before editorial approval.