Vancouver

Vancouver (49˚15'00" 123˚07'00" S of Burrard Inlet, E side of Str of Georgia), Vancouver Harbour (49˚18'00" 123˚06'00" Burrard Inlet, E of First Narrows). The RN officer who gave his name to BC’s largest city and made the first comprehensive charts of the coast of NW America led a surprisingly short and unhappy life. George Vancouver (1757–98) was born at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, and, as a young midshipman, joined Capt James Cook’s second (1772–75) and third (1776–80) voyages to...

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