Mexicana Point

Mexicana Point (50˚55'00" 127˚59'00" W end of Hope I, off N tip of Vancouver I). The Mexicana was a tiny, 14-m-long schooner commanded by Spanish naval officer Cayetano Valdés on a historic 1792 exploration of the BC coast and circumnavigation of Vancouver I. Valdes accompanied Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano, cdr of the Sutil, on this voyage, part of which was spent travelling with Capt George Vancouver and his two ships. Valdés and Alcalá-Galiano left San Blas, Mexico, in Mar, repaired the...

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