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George Vancouver
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Noun1.George Vancouver - English navigator remembered for his exploration of the Pacific coast of North America (1757-1798)George Vancouver - English navigator remembered for his exploration of the Pacific coast of North America (1757-1798)
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At one of them, a dance at the Governor's residence in Monterey, "the two Sandwich Island women at the request of Captain Vancouver exhibited their manner of singing & dancing, which did not appear to afford much entertainment to the Spanish Ladies" (Menzies 283-84).
British Columbia in Jane Austen's Time by Barman, Jean / Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
But by the time Captain Vancouver arrived in 1794, the glacier had retreated enough that he could chart the beginnings of a bay, and since then Glacier Bay has grown into a long fjord reaching the Canadian border.
Cruising to Alaska by Evans, James Allan / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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