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The district was originally administered from Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. With the signing of the Oregon Treaty in 1846, however, the US- British North America boundary was fixed on the 49th parallel, and the U.S. part became known as the Oregon Territory . The administrative headquarters then shifted to Fort Victoria . In addition to Fort Vancouver, Fort Nez Percé (near present-day Wallula, Washington ), Fort Langley , Spokane House , Fort Colville , and Kamloops House were other major trading posts in the district. With the creation of the Crown Colony on the British mainland north of the then- Washington Territory in 1858, Queen Victoria chose to use Columbia District as the basis for the name Colony Of British Columbia , i.e. the remaining British portion of the former Columbia District. HISTORICAL FIGURES OF THE COLUMBIA DISTRICT EXTERNAL LINKS |
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