Costumed staff and more than 150 volunteers will take part when Fort Vancouver National Historic Site holds its signature living history event on Saturday, Sept. 12.
The 32nd consecutive edition of Campfires & Candlesticks will feature encampments and re-enactments on the grounds and inside the buildings of the reconstructed Hudson’s Bay Company fort.
The free event is from 4 to 10 p.m. Along the event’s “Timeline of History,” encampments and demonstrations will highlight key people and events from the site’s past. Visitors can observe re-enactors representing World War II units, the World War I-era Spruce Production Division camp, Civil War soldiers, and workers in the Hudson’s Bay Company village.
Inside the reconstructed stockade, visitors can go back to Sept. 13, 1846, as the Hudson’s Bay Company organized a relief effort after the American naval vessel USS Shark wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Because of the event, the stockade will be open from 5 to 10 p.m.; Pearson Air Museum will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
