Fort Langley National Historic Site of Canada
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Address23433 Mavis Ave, Box 129Fort Langley, British Columbia V1M 2R5 Canada Website |
General ContactTeresa Conkin604-513-4785 604-513-4798 |
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Our Field Trips
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Children enjoy activities as they explore the fort and learn about the diversity of cultures and families at the fort and the kinds of jobs adults and children did.
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Students investigate the use of this site by Coast Salish people before and during the fur trade era. Archaeological evidence as well as hands-on reproductions and activities are used to learn more about the complex relationship between the Aboriginal peoples and the Hudson's Bay Co. employees working at Fort Langley.
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Groups of students led by costumed guides explore the site and complete a series of hands-on activities as they learn about the importance of the fur trade in the history of Canada, the role of Aboriginal people in the fur trade, the impact of the gold rush, and Fort Langley's role in creating the colony of British Columbia.
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Students discover the excitement of the 1858 gold rush as they tour the fort and engage in a variety of hands-on activities that includes panning for gold.
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Students learn about the resources which attracted the fur traders, how the Hudson's Bay Co. profited from furs and other resources, the impact of the fur trade on Canada's and B.C.'s history - especially the role of Fort Langley in the creation of the colony of B.C.
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Teachers and parent leaders lead brigades of students on an exploration of the fort, completing a number of hands-on activities and meeting costumed interpreters who show the group around the buildings and tell of the importance of the fur trade in Canada's history, the partnerships with aboriginal people at the fort, the impact of the gold rush, and Fort Langley's role in creating the colony of B.C.
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Joining the original inhabitants of what is now B.C., fur traders became the first of many waves of immigrants. This program explores what the immigrants brought with them (their own cultures, technologies, diseases), and what they took from this area (resources, other cultures).
