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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
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Fort past brought forward History repeated itself at the Fort Langley National Historic Site over the August long weekend. From July 31 to Aug. 2, Brigade Days brought oldfashioned fun to the Fort, with re-enactors, historic weapons demonstrations, fur trade weddings, music, and the signature event, the fur brigades’ arrival. This year’s brigades landed on the shores of Fort Langley on B.C. Day, Monday, Aug. 2. Brigade Days annually celebrates the fur brigade route that the voyageurs of the 19th century would take. The route follows rivers from the forts in the Interior to the banks of the Fraser River at Fort Langley. In 1848, Fort Langley became the main depot for the Hudson’s Bay Company on the West Coast. Every summer during the 1850s, the fur brigades would travel down the rivers to Fort Langley. The brigades came down in canoes full of furs and other goods that had been traded with First Nations at the Interior forts, and would bring other supplies back from Fort Langley at the end of the summer. Jake Overstreet, 10, entered the Fort site on Sunday dressed for the occasion. The visitor from Blaine, Wash., said he wore early 19th century garb complete with a beaver pelt hat “to mix in – it just matches what’s here.”
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Re-enactor Lisa Peppan carefully shaved off a slice of roast beef. Peppan has a close bond with the Fort. Her great great grandfather Etienne Pepin was a blacksmith there, and her great grandfather was born at the Fort in 1855.
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Standing at the entrance of Fort Langley National Historic Site on Sunday, greeters Sharon and Tom McMath welcomed a visitor to Brigade Days.
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Jake Overstreet, 10, from Blaine, Wash., enjoyed a history lesson from re-enactor and black powder firearms enthusiast Gordon MacIntosh (far left).
An experienced pilot has died during a firefighting operation in B.C.‚s Fraser Canyon. by Matthew Claxton
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Tim Whiting, a 58-yearold pilot, was killed along with his co-pilot when his Convair 580 water bomber crashed Saturday evening near Lytton. Rick Pederson of Abbotsford-based Conair confirmed that Whiting was a Langley resident. He had flown with Conair for 28 years, Pederson said. The company was offering its aid to the families of Pederson and his co-pilot, an Edmonton man. The copilot’s name has not been released, pending notification of his family. Whiting’s Facebook page says he worked for Conair in the summer and the United Nations in the winter. Photos show him flying planes in Chile and Timor. According to his Facebook page, he a daughter living in the Lower Mainland. Frederick Lepine, a friend of Whiting’s, said he was too distraught to speak about Whiting’s death, but said in an email that “Tim was a very experienced and capable pilot and a longtime friend.” Initially, search-and-rescue crews were unable to reach the crash site because of the intensity of wildfires, but Sunday afternoon Lytton RCMP and the B.C. Coroner Services were able to reach the site and confirm that both crew members were dead. Pederson said the Transportation Safety Board is now investigating the crash, and the company can’t comment on possible causes. Determining what happened is in the TSB’s hands, Pederson said. – With files from Vancovuer Sun