Camera: Hasselblad 500C/M     Lens: Zeiss Planar T* 2.8/80mm     Film: Agfa RS200     Date: 08.09.1990

Cooperage, Fort Langley National Historic Site, BC

The original Fort Langley was established in 1827 as a Hudson Bay Company’s fur trading post about 4km downstream from its present site. In the days before the Colony of Vancouver Island and the Colony of British Columbia united, Governor Sir James Douglas chose Fort Langley to be the provisional colonial capital. Today a National Historic Site and a major tourist attraction, the “fort” includes a visitor center and a largely reconstructed trading post that contains ten structures surrounded by wooden palisades. Before the cooperage was moved to a new building in 1992, it was located in the old servants’ quarters. It features all the required tools for barrel making and for other woodworking.