Captain George Vancouver was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including
Possible portrait of Vancouver
The Discovery ran aground in early August 1792 on hidden rocks in Queen Charlotte Strait in the Pacific Ocean, near Fife Sound.
In The Caneing in Conduit Street (1796), James Gillray caricatured Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford's street-corner assault on Vancouver in Conduit Street, London.
Vancouver's grave in St Peter’s Church, Petersham
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in th
George Vancouver
…also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia. Various places named for Vancouver include Vancouver Island, the city of Vancouver in British Columbia, Vancouver River on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Vancouver, Washington, in the United States, Mount Vancouver on the…
Skyline of Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver, Canada Place 2022 1847