Editing Fort Vancouver (section)

==Establishment==
[[File:Hudson's Bay Company Flag.svg|thumb|Hudson's Bay Company Flag]]

Fort Vancouver was established on the north bank of the Columbia River in the winter of 1824–1825.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Fort Vancouver |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/fortvancouver.htm |website=National Park Service}}</ref> The London-based Hudson's Bay Company established it to serve as the headquarters of the Company's interior fur trade.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=The Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Vancouver |url=https://www.nps.gov/fova/learn/historyculture/hbcfort1.htm |website=National Park Service}}</ref> In the early 1820s a general reorganization of all NWC properties, now entirely under HBC management, was overseen directly by Sir [[George Simpson (administrator)|George Simpson]]. The newly established [[Columbia District]] needed a more suitable headquarters than Fort George at the mouth of the Columbia. Simpson was instrumental in the establishment of Fort Vancouver.{{sfn|Mackie|1997|p=318}} Using the HBC position that any settlement of the [[Oregon boundary dispute]] would confirm the border placement along the Columbia; Simpson selected a location situated opposite from the mouth of the [[Willamette River]]. This expanse was an open and fertile prairie that was outside the flood plain and had easy access to the Columbia.{{sfn|Dunn|1844|p=141}}