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9 de may. de 2024 · George Vancouver (born June 22, 1757, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England—died May 10, 1798, Richmond, Surrey) was an English navigator who, with great precision, completed one of the most difficult surveys ever undertaken, that of the Pacific coast of North America, from the vicinity of San Francisco northward to present-day British ...
26 de abr. de 2024 · VANCOUVER, GEORGE, naval officer and explorer; b. 22 June 1757 at King’s Lynn, England, sixth and youngest child of John Jasper Vancouver, deputy collector of customs at King’s Lynn and a descendant of the titled Van Coeverden family, one of the oldest in Holland, and Bridget Berners, daughter of an old Essex and Norfolk family that traced its ancestry back to Sir Richard Grenville of ...
13 de may. de 2024 · May 13, 2024. Captain George Vancouver's Encounter with the Pacific Northwest. Captain George Vancouver was a renowned British explorer and navigator whose voyage to the Pacific Northwest in the late 18th century left an indelible mark on the region's history and geography.
17 de may. de 2024 · First discovered by Captain James Cook (1778), the island was surveyed in 1792 by George Vancouver and was held by the Hudson’s Bay Company until it was made a British crown colony in 1849.
Hace 2 días · It was incorporated as a city in April 1886 (just before it became the western terminus of the first trans-Canada railway, the Canadian Pacific) and was renamed to honour the English navigator George Vancouver, of the Royal Navy, who had explored and surveyed the coast in 1792.
1 de may. de 2024 · Última actualización: 1 de mayo de 2024. Vancouver lo tiene todo: avenidas arboladas, costa sobre el océano Pacífico y las montañas de North Shore. Vancouver es votada con frecuencia como una de las mejores ciudades del mundo para vivir, ocupando recientemente el puesto número 5 en 2023.
8 de may. de 2024 · This weekend, in a tiny village near London, Captain George Vancouver will be commemorated as he is every year at the centuries-old churchyard where he was buried more than 225 years ago.
