Boat Encampment

Site Name: Boat Encampment
Description: First visited by David Thompson in 1811, the site was an important trans-shipment point for the Hudson's Bay Company Express fur brigades moving to and from the Columbia River across the continent; the site was flooded by hydroelectric development of the river in 1973, and the marker now rests on a point in the Sprague Bay Recreation Site
Date: 1811 (established)
Location: Warsaw Mountain, Red Rock Bay, British Columbia
Region: West Coast
Geolocation : 52.11667, -118.43333
Designated: 1943




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