https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Langley#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Langley#History > [Fort Langley] dates from a time when the boundary betw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Langley#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Langley#History > [Fort Langley] dates from a time when the boundary between British and American possession of the trans-mountain west, known as the Columbia District had not yet been decided. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_District#Hudson's_Bay_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_District#Hudson's_Bay... > With the creation of the Crown Colony on the British mainland north of the then-Washington Territory in 1858, Queen Victoria chose to use Columbia District as the basis for the name Colony of British Columbia, i.e. the remaining British portion of the former Columbia District.