After the Hudson’s Bay fur traders left Fort Vancouver, and long before the Doughboys of World War I arrived, Vancouver Barracks was an Army post in transition.
The changes that took place and the people who lived, worked, served and were imprisoned there in the 1880s are the subject of a new self-guided walking tour through the East Barracks portion of the site.
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