Brigade Days at Fort Langley NHS

9am-6pm
Come and see our biggest weekend of the year! With dozens of costumed re-enactors demonstrating heritage activities as they camp on the site, and all of our other fun family games there is plenty to see and do!

Walk through a traditional 19th century encampment, complete with canvas tents, muskets, and beans cooked over a fire. Brigade Days at Fort Langley National Historic Site is three days of historic demonstrations and interactive furtrade programs.

Don’t miss the arrival of the brigades on the Fraser River on Monday at
1:00pm and the FREE Concert as part of the Picnic in the Fort on Monday
night, with musical guests LCMS Western Fiddlers and the Sumner
Brothers! Please check web site for more details.

Brigade Days at Fort Langley National Historic Site is three days of historic demonstrations and interactive fur trade programs.

Event Schedule:

SATURDAY, JULY 31
9:00 Site Opens

9:30 Program: Bilingual Tour - Get a tour of the Fort from one
of our skilled interpreters. Go through all of the buildings, including the Storehouse, the only original building on the site, built in the 1840s. Tours offered in both French and English.’

10:00 Historic Weapons demonstration - Watch as staff and
re-enactors shoot black powder rifles into the sky.

11:00 Program: Are You Wealthy? - Discover the story of the
Aboriginal wives of the HBC fur traders, and how they used to
make their way in the world.

12:00 Program: Trade Wars- An interactive program where you can
take part in the epic struggle between the HBC traders and the
American traders to keep their customers

12:30 Ways of the Trap – Gord McIntosh - Gord is a seasoned
re-enactor at Brigade Days and showcases the ways the fur
trappers of the 19th century used to catch their furs.

1:00 Program: Les histories des voyageurs - Experience the
stories of the voyageurs who used to make their way down the Fraser
to Fort Langley every summer.

1:30 Women of the Fur Trade – Michelle Cole - Michelle tells
the story of pivotal role women played in the fur trade here at the
fort.

2:00 Program: Fur Trade Wedding - Watch as a wedding between an
Aboriginal woman and an HBC trader happens, and who knows, you
might end up being the bride or groom.

3:00 Historic Weapons demonstration

4:00 Program: History Game Show - Test your knowledge of the
Fort and the fur trade in this fast-paced game show

5:00 Program: Weed & Feed -Help feed the animals and weed the
heritage garden, you will really get a sense for what life was
like here at the Fort in 1858.

6:00 Site Closes

SUNDAY, AUGUST 1

9:00 Site Opens

9:30 Program: Bilingual Tour -Get a tour of the Fort from one
of our skilled interpreters. Go through all of the buildings, including the Storehouse, the only original building on the site, built in the 1840s. Tours offered in both French and English.

10:00 Historic Weapons Demonstration - Watch as staff and re-enactors
shoot black powder rifles into the sky.

11:00 Program: Are You Wealthy? - Discover the story of the
Aboriginal wives of the HBC fur traders, and how they used to
make their way in the world.

12:00 Program: Trade Wars - An interactive program where you
can take part in the epic struggle between the HBC traders and
the American traders to keep their customers.

12:30 Ways of the Trap – Gord McIntosh - Gord is a seasoned
re-enactor at Brigade Days and showcases the ways the fur
trappers of the 19th century used to catch their furs.

1:00 Historic Weapons demonstration

1:30 Women of the Fur Trade – Michelle Cole - Michelle tells
the story of pivotal role women played in the fur trade here at the
fort.

2:00 Program: Fur Trade Wedding - Watch as a wedding between an
Aboriginal woman and an HBC trader happens, and who knows, you
might end up being the bride or groom.

3:00 Historic Weapons demonstration

4:00 Program: History Game Show - Test your knowledge of the
Fort and the fur trade in this fast-paced game show

4:30 Re-enactor Cooking Contest - The re-enactors inside the
Fort test their culinary skills and compete for the title of
Top Chef within the palisade walls.

5:00 Program: Weed & Feed -Help feed the animals and weed the
heritage garden, you will really get a sense for what life was
like here at the Fort in 1858.

6:00 Site Closes

MONDAY, AUGUST 2
9:00

Site Opens

9:30 Program: Bilingual Tour

10:00 Program: Are You Wealthy?

11:00 Historic Weapons demonstration

12:00 Program: Trade Wars

12:30 Piper leads the way to the waterfront for the Brigade
arrival - the fur brigades are several canoes full of
re-enactors and members of the Fort Langley Canoe Club
who paddle to the shores at Marina Park in Fort Langley.
Their canoes are full of fur bales, barrels and
dignitaries, all of which get unloaded and brought back
up to the Fort.

1:00 Brigade Arrival at Waterfront

1:30 Brigade party arrives at Big House - Mr.Yale who came in
with the voyageurs, makes a little speech about Brigade Days.

2:00 Program: Les histories des voyageurs

3:00 Historic Weapons demonstration

3:30 Program: History Game Show

4:00 Women of the Fur Trade – Michelle Cole

5:00 Program: Weed & Feed

6:00 Picnic in the Fort FREE Concert sponsored by the Fort
Langley Community Improvement Society -bring a picnic
basket and a blanket and sit inside the walls of the Fort
and enjoy a concert with the whole family!
Langley Community Music School Western Fiddlers

7:00 Sumner Brothers - A free concert put on by the Fort Langley
Community Improvement Society, featuring the Sumner brothers

9:00 Site closes

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