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"Birch Bay",
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"June 11, 1792",
"Capt. George Vancouver's flagship Discovery and armed tender Chatham anchored in Birch Bay after having traveled up the coast from California and through Juan de Fuca Strait in the previous weeks. (The ships had set sail from England on April 1, 1791.) It was from here that Vancouver and a small crew left on an 11-day survey of the southwest coast of British Columbia using two small boats under power of oar and sail."
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"Valdes Island",
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"June 12, 1792",
"As we stood to the westward, our depth soon increased to 15 fathoms, after which we gained no bottom until we reached the western shore of the gulf, where, on our arrival about one o'clock in the morning, it was with much difficulty we were enabled to land on the steep rugged rocks that compose the coast, for the purposes of cooking only, and were compelled, by this unfavorable circumstance, to remain and sleep in the boats."
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49.2911,
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"Near Port Moody",
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"June 13, 1792",
"We landed for the night about half a league from the head of the inlet, and about three leagues from its entrance. This day marked the first time any European had explored the inner reaches of Burrard Inlet beyond Stanley Park, now the main harbour area of the City of Vancouver."
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"Near Woodfibre",
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"June 14, 1792",
"In this dreary and comfortless region, it was no inconsiderable piece of good fortune to find a little cove in which we could take shelter, and a small spot of level land on which we could erect our tent."
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49.4004,
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"Near Gibsons Landing",
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"June 15, 1792",
"By sun-set we had passed the channel which had been observed to lead into the gulf, to the southward of Anvil Island; and about nine o'clock landed for the night, near the west point of entrance into the sound. He named this point Point Gower but today it is called The Bluff. (The headland we now call Gower Point is located a little further along the coast.)"
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"Near Francis Bay (Pender Harbour)",
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"June 16, 1792",
"Along this rocky shore of the main land we passed in quest of a resting place for the night, to no effect, until after dark; when we found shelter in a very dreary uncomfortable cove near the south point of an island, about a mile long, and about two miles to the S.S.E. of a narrow opening leading to the northward. This narrow opening is now called Agamemnon Channel."
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"Near Vancouver Bay (Prince of Wales Reach)",
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"June 17, 1792",
"Agreeably to our general mode of proceeding, the north-easterly branch became the first object of our attention, and was found from hence to continue in an irregular course to the latitude of 49°49′, longitude 236°35½′; where, finding a tolerably comfortable situation, we rested for the night."
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-123.8000,
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"Near Malibu Rapids (Queen's Reach)",
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"June 18, 1792",
"This not answering our purpose as a resting place, obliged us to continue our search along the shore for one less incommodious, which the perpendicular precipices precluded our finding until near eleven at night, when we disembarked on the only low projecting point the inlet afforded. Vancouver did not attempt to navigate the treacherous Malibu Rapids, so he missed Princess Louisa Inlet, the most important tourist attraction in the area today."
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49.8170,
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"Near Goliath Bay",
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"June 19, 1792",
"At four, on the morning of Tuesday the 19th, we again started, but having a strong southerly gale against us, it was past nine before we reached a small bay, about a mile to the north of the north point of the arm leading to the north-westward, where we rested for the night."
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49.5205,
-124.1396,
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"Near Anderson Bay (Texada Island)",
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"June 20, 1792",
"The shores of this land, nearly straight and compact, are principally formed of rocky substances of different sorts; amongst which, slate was in abundance; and the trees it produced were of infinitely more luxuriant growth than those on the opposite shore."
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49.3481,
-123.4625,
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"Near Worlcombe Island",
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"June 21, 1792",
"Vancouver does not say in his book where he camped on the evening of June 21. We do know that early the next morning, around 7 am, he had his famous encounter with Spanish explorers Galiano and Valdés off Point Grey. This means that he must have spent the night somewhere within a 3-hour paddle of Point Grey. Lieutenant Peter Puget's journal says That Night we reached the Cluster of Islands in Mid Channel off [Point Grey], where we stopped, so they probably camped on Worlcombe Island (one of the islands in the Pasley group) or perhaps on Bowen Island."
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"Point Roberts",
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"June 22, 1792 (Vancouver's 35th birthday)",
"We were likewise unfortunate in having two flood tides against us. These, together with a light southerly breeze that prevailed the whole time, obliged us to be constantly rowing from nine in the forenoon until after midnight, before we could reach the point, which was at length effected; though not before we were nearly exhausted by fatigue. Here we slept, and in the morning of Saturday the 23d, against a strong easterly breeze, about ten in the forenoon we reached the ships, after having traversed in our boats upwards of 330 miles."
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