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| Keywords: outdoor "The Old Stone Cairn, Hope, B. C." Post Card. Made in Canada by The Gowen, Sutton Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B. C. Fort Hope Memorial Cairn At Hope, BC on the Fraser River. Designated 1925; Plaqued 1927. Inscription: "Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. FORT HOPE. To commemorate the building of a stockaded post at Hope by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1848 and the opening of a way into the Interior through British territory. By the "Brigade Trail" wastwards from Hope trade was maintained for twenty years. Until, with finding of gold on the Fraser River, the valley awoke to greater activity and new highways were brought into use. Erected 1927." "The Old Stone Cairn, Hope, B. C." Post Card. Made in Canada by The Gowen, Sutton Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B. C. Fort Hope Memorial Cairn At Hope, BC on the Fraser River. Designated 1925; Plaqued 1927. Inscription: "Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. FORT HOPE. To commemorate the building of a stockaded post at Hope by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1848 and the opening of a way into the Interior through British territory. By the "Brigade Trail" wastwards from Hope trade was maintained for twenty years. Until, with finding of gold on the Fraser River, the valley awoke to greater activity and new highways were brought into use. Erected 1927." | ||||
