Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA: Veenkoloniale Genealogieën

Notes:
Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Clark County. According to the Washington State Office of Financial Management's estimate in April of 2008, the city has a population of 162,400, making it the fourth largest city in the state. It is part of the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area, which is the 23rd largest metropolitan area in the United States with over 2 million residents.

The larger city of Vancouver, British Columbia is located 305 miles (491 km) north of Vancouver, Washington. Both cities were named for sea captain George Vancouver, but the Canadian city was not incorporated until 1886, nearly thirty years afteer Vancouver, Washington, and more than sixty years after the name Fort Vancouver was first used. City officials have periodically suggested changing the city's name to Fort Vancouver, Vancouver USA, or even Old Vancouver to reduce confusion with Vancouver, British Columbia. Many Pacific Northwest residents distinguish between the two cities by referring to the Canadian Vancouver as "Vancouver, B.C" and the American one as Vancouver, Washington. Current mayor Royce Pollard is an advocate of the unofficial moniker "America's Vancouver."

History

The Vancouver area was inhabited by a variety of Native American tribes, most recently the Chinook and Klickitat nations, with permanent settlements of timber longhouses. The Chinookan and Klickitat names for the area were reportedly Skit-so-to-ho and Ala-si-kas, respectively, meaning "land of the mud-turtles". First European contact was in 1775, with approximately half of the indigenous population dead from small pox before the Lewis and Clark expedition camped in the area in 1806. Within another fifty years, other actions and diseases such as measles, malaria and influenza had reduced the Chinookan population from an estimated 80,000 "to a few dozen refugees, landless, slaveless and swindled out of a treaty."

Meriwether Lewis wrote that the Vancouver area was "the only desired situation for settlement west of the Rocky Mountains." The first permanent European settlement did not occur until 1824, when Fort Vancouver was established as a fur trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company. From that time on, the area was settled by both the US and Britain under a "joint occupation" agreement. Joint occupation led to the Oregon boundary dispute amd ended on June 15, 1846, with the signing of the Oregon Treaty, which gave the United States full control of the area. Before 1845, American Henry Williamson laid out a large claim west of the Hudson's Bay Company (including part of the present-day Port of Vancouver), called Vancouver City and properly registered his claim at the U.S. courthouse in Oregon City, before leaving for California. The City of Vancouver was incorporated on January 23, 1857 and in 2007 marks its sesquicentennial.

Based on an act in the 1859-1860 legislature, Vancouver was briefly the capital of the Washington Territory, before being returned to Olympia, Washington by a 2-1 ruling of the territory's supreme court, in accordance with Isaac Stevens' preference and concern that proximity to Oregon might give its southern neighbor undue influence.

U.S. Army Captain (and future President) Ulysses S. Grant was quartermaster at what was then known as Columbia Barracks for 15 months beginning in September 1852. Soon after leaving Vancouver, he resigned from the army and did not serve again until the outbreak of the American Civil War. Other notable generals to have served in Vancouver include George B. McClellan, Philip Sheridan, Oliver O. Howard and 1953 Nobel Peace Prize recipient George Marshall.

Army presence in Vancouver was very strong, as the Department of the Columbia built and moved to Vancouver Barracks, the military reservation for which stretched from the river to what is currently Fourth Plain Boulevard and was the largest Army base in the region until surpassed by Fort Lewis, 120 miles (190 km) to the north. Built on the old company gardens and skirmish range, Pearson Army Field (later Pearson Field) was a key facility, and at one point the US Army Signal Corps operated the largest spruce cut-up plant in the world to provide much-needed wood for airplanes. Vancouver became the end point for two ultra-long flights from Moscow, USSR over the North Pole. The first of these flights was performed by Valery Chkaalov in 1937 on a Tupolev ANT-25RD airplane. Chkalov was originally scheduled to land at an airstrip in nearby Portland, OR, but redirected at the last minute to Vancouver's Pearson Airfield. Today there is a street named for him in Vancouver. In 1975 an obelisk was erected on an airfield commemorating this event.

Separated from Oregon until 1917, when the Interstate Bridge began to replace ferries, Vancouver had three shipyards just downstream which produced ships for World War I before World War II brought an enormous economic boom. An Alcoa aluminum plant opened on September 2, 1940, using inexpensive power from the nearby New Deal hydropower turbines at Bonneville Dam. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Henry Kaiser opened a shipyard next to the U.S. Army reserve, which by 1944 employed as mmany as 36,000 people in a twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week production of liberty ships, LST's, and "baby flat tops". This influx of shipyard workers boosted the population from 18,000 to over 80,000 in just a few months, leading to thhe creation of the Vancouver Housing Authority and six new residential developments: Fruit Valley, Fourth Plain Village, Bagley Downs, Ogden Meadows, Burton Homes and McLoughlin Heights. Each of these was later incorporated into the city, and are well-known neighborhoods, while the neighboring "shipyard city" of Vanport, Oregon, would be destroyed by the Memorial Day flood of 1948.

In 1956, Willie Nelson moved to Vancouver to begin his musical career, recording "Lumberjack". The single sold fairly well, but did not establish a career. Nelson continued to work as a radio announcer in Vancouver and sing in clubs. He sold a song called "Family Bible" for $50; the song was a hit for Claude Gray in 1960, has been covered widely and is often considered a gospel music classic.

Vancouver has recently experienced conflicts with other Clark County communities because of rapid growth in the area. As a result of urban growth and annexation, Vancouver is often thought of as split between two areas, East and West Vancouver, divided by NE Andresen Road. West Vancouver is home to downtown Vancouver and some of the more historical parts of the city, as well as recent high-density mixed-use development.

More than one-third of the Vancouver urban area's population has spilled into an unincorporated urban area north of its city limits, including the communities of Hazel Dell, Felida, Orchards and Salmon Creek. If county leaders had approved a major annexation plan in 2006, Vancouver would have passed Tacoma and Spokane to become the state's second-largest city.

Downtown revitalization

In 1997 the city of Vancouver decided to dedicate the next 15-20 years to redevelop and revitalize a huge portion of the downtown core. The first projects started in the early 2000s with the construction of many tall condominium structures around Esther Short park and in the Uptown Village neighborhood. The most lauded outside investment was the construction of a Hilton hotel directly across from the park. Currently the city is building a new shopping complex, including a recently finished Fred Meyer, just outside of the downtown core. The Columbian newspaper has recently finished building a new seven-story building adjacent to the Hilton. There are plans in the future for a new development along C Street in downtown that would include a new library, a new Marriott hotel and roughly 250 new condominiums, along with other projects remain processing to start:

* Riverwest - Mixed use project which includes a condominiums building, hotel/condominiums building, offices building, and a new main library.

* The Luxe - 6 story offices and condominiums building.

* Waterfront Redevelopment - Which include 10K Residents Envision, Retails, Offices, Parks, and more.

* Prestige Plaza - 6 story building which includes condominiums and offices.

* Columbia river crossing - project in which a new 12-lane bridge and transit will be built along Interstate 5 from Jantzen Beach area to downtown Vancouver

Birth

Matches 1 to 4 of 4

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID	Tree
1	Davis, William L.	Friday 21 March 1856	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I449815	Veenkoloniale voorouders
2	Hollenbeck, Roy Charles	Saturday 11 May 1940	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I450428	Veenkoloniale voorouders
3	Kaufmann, Marvin Albert	Sunday 04 January 1920	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I383096	Veenkoloniale voorouders
4	Smithline, Arlene Vera	Sunday 27 October 1918	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I383078	Veenkoloniale voorouders

Death

Matches 1 to 11 of 11

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Death		Person ID	Tree
1	Comeau, Russell Warren	Thursday 19 January 2006	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I383085	Veenkoloniale voorouders
2	Hauge, Christine Anna	Thursday 24 June 2004	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I450105	Veenkoloniale voorouders
3	Hewett, William C.	Tuesday 28 November 1944	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I449070	Veenkoloniale voorouders
4	Hollenbeck, Roy Charles	Saturday 23 February 2002	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I450428	Veenkoloniale voorouders
5	Kielman, Florence Louise	Monday 05 March 2007	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I380651	Veenkoloniale voorouders
6	Kielman, George	Sunday 26 April 1992	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I380646	Veenkoloniale voorouders
7	Kielman, Hermannus	March 1963	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I356929	Veenkoloniale voorouders
8	Kielman, Mary Mae	Friday 20 December 2013	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I380649	Veenkoloniale voorouders
9	Knauf, Bernice Ann	Sunday 23 February 1986	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I448594	Veenkoloniale voorouders
10	Lingbeek, Frouwke	Tuesday 04 March 1958	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I356934	Veenkoloniale voorouders
11	Sullivan, Joann	Tuesday 04 January 1944	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I449218	Veenkoloniale voorouders

Burial

Matches 1 to 2 of 2

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Burial		Person ID	Tree
1	Kielman, Hermannus		Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I356929	Veenkoloniale voorouders
2	Lingbeek, Frouwke		Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	I356934	Veenkoloniale voorouders

Marriage

Matches 1 to 2 of 2

	Family	Marriage		Family ID	Tree
1	Comeau / Kielman	Saturday 10 July 1943	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	F149972	Veenkoloniale voorouders
2	Nessel / Wellcome	Saturday 16 December 1933	Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA	F174974	Veenkoloniale voorouders

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