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Fort St. James is a district municipality and former fur trading post in northern central British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the south-eastern shore of Stuart Lake in the Omineca Country , at the northern terminus of Highway 27 , which connects to Highway 16 at Vanderhoof .
This is a list of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts. [1]For the fur trade in general see North American fur trade and Canadian canoe routes (early).For some groups of related posts see Fort-Rupert for James Bay.
Settlers who came later scavenged most of the fort's materials for their own constructions. [9] In 1872 a reporter from the Yankton Press noted the massive walls of the abandoned fort still standing as he travelled up the James River. [10] When Hanson County was organized, old Fort James became the first temporary county seat and was known as ...
The Gambia Colony and Protectorate was the British colonial administration of The Gambia from 1821 to 1965, part of the British Empire in the New Imperialism era. The colony was the immediate area surrounding Bathurst (now Banjul), and the protectorate was the inland territory situated around the Gambia River, which was declared in 1894.
The area that makes up Fort York neighbourhood was the result of land reclamation projects in the late-19th and early-20th century. The neighbourhood area consists of the former industrial lands immediately east and south of Fort York, a fort since 1793, and designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1923.
A park district is a form of local special-purpose district for providing public parks and recreation in or near its geographic boundaries. Some park districts also own or maintain related cultural facilities such as monuments, zoos , sports venues, music venues, or museums .
Fort Amsterdam, New York City, originally named Fort James; Fort Berthold, North Dakota, originally named Fort James, a fur trading post renamed in 1846; Fort Severn First Nation, originally named Fort James, a fur-trading post built by Hudson's Bay Company in 1689, in Northern Ontario, Canada; James Fort, a Jamestown Rediscovery site, built in ...
Fort York was a provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1987 and was subsequently abolished in 1999 when the ridings were redistributed to match their federal counterparts. The riding had only two representatives: Bob Wong who was elected in the 1987 provincial election; and,