Vancouver Walk & Talk: Fort Vancouver History Walk

We’ll meet in front of Grant House on Officers Row, walk west along Officers Row to the Marshall House, then head back up past the front of Fort Vancouver and the Pearson Air Museum before returning to Grant House. It’s a simple sidewalk loop, easy to follow, and easy to stay together.

Along the way we’ll pass some of Vancouver’s oldest historic sites. Grant House was built in 1849 and was home to Ulysses S. Grant when he served here as a young army officer. The Marshall House is one of the park’s original officers’ residences. Fort Vancouver was the center of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trade empire in the 1800s, and the Pearson Air Museum sits on one of the region’s earliest airfields.

We’ll take a group photo in front of the Marshall House for anyone who wants to be in it, with no pressure either way.

This is a relaxed, mostly flat sidewalk walk at a conversational pace. We stay together as a group. Expect about 60 minutes total. Everyone is welcome.

If people want to keep chatting afterward, we may stop for coffee at The Portal Cafe near Hudson’s Bay High School.