George Vancouver

George Vancouver                                                                                 George Vancouver was an English navigator who completed one of the most hard-fought surveys ever taken, that of the Pacific bound of North America, from the surroundings of San Francisco northerly to present-day British Columbia. At that time he prove that no continuous channel exists between the Pacific naval and Hudson Bay, in northeast Canada.

        George Vancouver was born in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England on June 22, 1757. He was of Dutch ancestry, descended from the titled Van Coeverden family.

Georges father, John Jasper Vancouver, was assistant storage battery of customs at Kings Lynn and his mother, Brid shoot Berners, came from an old county family.

        Vancouver entered the history of exploration by joining the Royal Navy at age 13 and accompanied Captain James Cook on his insurgent and third voyages (1772-75 and 1776-80). In December 1791,Vancouver was appointed commander to the hostile expedition to the northwest microscope slide of North America and was given trey assignments: first, to meet a Spanish commissioner at Nootka and settle the damage claims start from the 1789 seizures; secondly, to make a detailed survey of the coast from California to Alaska; and, thirdly, to try to determine once and for all whether an penetration to a Northwest Passage (or a navigable transportation that extended far inland) actually existed.

        Departing from Falmouth, England on April 1, 1791, Vancouver rounded the pall of Good Hope, and visited Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii. On April 17, 1792, Vancouver sighted the west coast of North America at 39º27 N. By that time, he had intended to explore every bay and outlet of this region, and umpteen times had to use boats rather than his ships to do so, because the inlets were often similarly narrow for his ships. Vancouver also examined the coast with detailed care, surveying the heterogeneous inlets and channels in the region and named Puget Sound after...

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