Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, leading the United States…
1841 CE
He lands at Fort Nisqually, an important fur trading and farming post of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Puget Sound area, part of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department, on May 11, 1840.
Wilkes holds the first American Independence Day celebration west of the Mississippi River in what is now Dupont, Washington on July 5, 1841.
The Pugets Sound Agricultural Company (PSAC) had been formed in 1840 as a subsidiary of the HBC to meet its contractual obligations with the Russian-American Company in the RAC-HBC Agreement.
Fort Nisqually and Cowlitz Farm are attached to the new venture, though it remains staffed and managed by HBC personnel.
In 1841 mostly Métis families from the Red River colony are hired by the PSAC to become pastoralists and farmers upon its two stations.
After traveling overland to Fort Vancouver by James Sinclair, fourteen Métis emigrant families from the Red River colony choose Fort Nisqually as their final destination.
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