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<p>Twentieth century archaeological excavations at the site of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Fort Vancouver, in current-day Vancouver, Washington, resulted in the recovery of rivets and the edges of iron plate that represent the 1842 scrapping of the boiler of the HBC’s steamship <i>Beaver</i> and the reuse of the iron from the boiler by the blacksmiths at Fort Vancouver. This article establishes the provenance of these artifacts both as coming from <i>Beaver</i>, the first steamship to operate on the Pacific coast of North America. These artifacts reflect scrapping of the boiler on an isolated frontier, the need for iron, and the availability of skilled blacksmiths at Fort Vancouver in the recycling of the boiler scrap.</p>

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The Archaeological Signature of Frontier Recycling: Evidence of the First Boiler of the Ss Beaver, the First Working Steamship on the Pacific Coast of North America

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    2025年9月2日

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  • James P. Delgado,
  • Meagan A. Huff

摘要

Twentieth century archaeological excavations at the site of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Fort Vancouver, in current-day Vancouver, Washington, resulted in the recovery of rivets and the edges of iron plate that represent the 1842 scrapping of the boiler of the HBC’s steamship Beaver and the reuse of the iron from the boiler by the blacksmiths at Fort Vancouver. This article establishes the provenance of these artifacts both as coming from Beaver, the first steamship to operate on the Pacific coast of North America. These artifacts reflect scrapping of the boiler on an isolated frontier, the need for iron, and the availability of skilled blacksmiths at Fort Vancouver in the recycling of the boiler scrap.