Archibald McDonald was chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Langley, Fort Nisqually and Fort Colvile and one-time deputy governor of the Red River Colony.
Archibald McDonald
Fort Langley National Historic Site
Fort Langley National Historic Site, commonly shortened to Fort Langley, is a former fur trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company in the community of Fort Langley of Langley, British Columbia, Canada. The national historic site sits above the banks of the Bedford Channel across McMillan Island. The national historic site contains a visitor centre and a largely reconstructed trading post that contains ten structures surrounded by wooden palisades.
Inside Fort Langley National Historic Site
Depiction of Voyageurs along the Fraser River in 1808 by Charles William Jefferys. Fort Langley was built partly due to the belief that the Fraser River was a more navigable than the Columbia River.
Governor James Douglas taking the oath of office at Fort Langley in 1858
Photograph of Fort Langley from 1862