Talk:Fort Colville

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[edit] not adding BC history cat

I thought of this, but decided maybe it's unneeded; it would be better if there were a cat, subcat of the HBC cat guess, that was Category:Columbia District "instead" of Category:Oregon Country; really they're different but that's a longer discussion. Thing is this article should maybe be in Category:History of British Columbia because it's from an era before the British interests that became BC were Americanized, .e. the same way Fort Nisqually and Fort Vancouver are, or should be anyway...I won't bother right now, but it's a consideration someone else may choose to validate by nserting it. One factor concerning Colville and BC post-boundary is that the Colville Gold Rush drew a lot of the guys who had been on the Fraser and in the Cariboo and Big Bend and so on, back down across the line, whjch of course was very porous; as in notes on Talk:Columbia River about NPOV the hstory of the PacNW isback adn rforth and nterrelated....makes me wonder if there couldn't/shouldn't be a sub-sikiproject of the WA, BC, ID, OR, MT, AK, YT projects coordnating cross-border hstorical and geogrpahical and economic articles.Skookum1 (talk) 03:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Different name origin elsewhere

I know that it was named after A. Colville, gbut FYI on Colville Indian Reservation they mention an American officer; I'll be back to check it's teh same Ft Colville under discussion; the other one struck me as wrong but I do wonder what it is and why it's there....Skookum1 (talk) 03:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] in-depth resource

I found this on Fts Colville, Okanagan, Similkameen and Shepherd/Pend'Oreille on the Royal BC Museum's Living Landscapes project; lots of great detail.....Skookum1 (talk) 17:06, 10 April 2008 (UTC)