"The Friends" are a society devoted to supporting and promoting the Fort St. James National Historic Site of Canada and the community of Fort St. James.  We fulfill this mandate in a variety of ways, including producing publications, organizing community events, hosting guest speakers, and financially supporting projects related to the site.

Some of the projects have included open houses at the site, in partnership with the District of Fort St. James, the Banner Project in partnership with the Community Arts Council, Christmas events at the Site, and many more.

Meetings are held the second Thursday of each month at 5:00 p.m. at the Historic Site.

Individual memberships are $5/year; corporate memberships are $25/year.

Publications Currently Available

Harmon's Journal 1800-1819

Daniel Williams Harmon was a partner in the North West Company.  His journal provides "some of the richest records we have of traders' experiences and of their relations with their fellow traders and with the Aboriginal people on whom their trade and livelihood depended." (Jennifer S.H. Brown, from the foreword). 

The journal of his life and times traveling and trading for the Northwest Company across the Canadian wilderness has been re-published and re-bound by his great, great, great grandson, Graham Ross, and is being offered for sale by the Friends of the Fort. The hardcover volume is bound to simulate a leather covering with gold lettering and includes a copy of an original historic map of “The Interior of North America”.

The following excerpt took place at the Stuart Lake Fort:

"The Roof of the House...became on fire and was in a blaze before it was perceived. However by the assistance of our People it was extinguished before it had done much injury, but how thankful ought we to be that such a circumstance did not happen in the night time when the whole Fort no doubt would have been consumed to ashes." (D. Harmon, April 11, 1814)

192 pages, hard cover.  $30.00  Order Form (PDF)

A Walk Through Time

This book is so much more than a tourist guide!

Packed with information and photos of Fort St. James National Historic site as well as other attractions in town, it is an excellent introduction to the Fort St. James area and its history. 

This special edition is expanded with a "A Glimpse of the Past", featuring photographs of the Fort St. James as it used to be, and "Historic Houses and Early Settlement of Fort St. James", a historical look at the development of our thriving town before incorporation.

77 pages, spiral bound.  $10.00  Order Form (PDF)

Trail Burgers and Leatherbacks (cookbook)

Traditional recipes and folk wisdom from Fort St. James

Spiral bound.  $10.00  Order Form (PDF)