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
Nootka Lighthouse overlooking Yuquot
Three Nuu-chah-nulth children in Yuquot, 1930s
Fort San Miguel
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Fort San Miguel was a Spanish fortification at Yuquot on Nootka Island, just west of north-central Vancouver Island. It protected the Spanish settlement, called Santa Cruz de Nuca, the first colony in
Yuquot
…Spanish settlement in what is now Canada, and the northernmost verified Spanish settlement in the Americas. The colony was protected by the cannon of Fort San Miguel and was maintained until the resolution of the Nootka Crisis in 1795. Yuquot was the scene of the Nootka Crisis, which nearly led to war between Spain…
Depiction of Fort San Miguel, 1793