Travel Guide Fort Langley

The village of Fort Langley has retained its period architecture and is well worth a stop. It is the birthplace of British Columbia in November 1858. The fort was built in 1827 because the boundary between the possessions of Canada and the United States had not been established in this area of the Pacific Northwest (it was not until 1846 with the Treaty of Oregon). The fort recreates what the Hudson's Bay Company used as a post and trading post for the Canadian West. It saw the passage of fur and salmon traders, explorers and fortune seekers on their way to the mines in the north. Now the site lives again, animated by locals in period costume.