Santa Cruz de Nuca
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Santa Cruz de Nuca was a Spanish colonial fort and settlement and the first European colony in what is now known as British Columbia. The settlement was founded on Vancouver Island in 1789 and abandon
Reconstruction of Fort San Miguel and Santa Cruz de Nuca
Seizure of Capt. Colnett
Friendly Cove, Nootka Sound. Volume I, plate VII from: A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World by George Vancouver.
Three Nuu-chah-nulth children in Yuquot, 1930s
Yuquot
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Friendly Cove, also known as Yuquot, is a small settlement of around six people—the Williams family of the Mowachaht band—plus two full-time lighthouse keepers, located on Nootka Island in Nootka Soun
Santa Cruz de Nuca
…been merely a "political fiction", created by Spanish cartographers with the aim of dissuading other nations from attempting to expand in the area. Yuquot (meaning "Wind comes from all directions") was the summer home of Chief Maquinna and the Mowachaht/Muchalaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) people for generations…
Nootka Lighthouse overlooking Yuquot