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Robin Fisher notes that Vancouver's " relationships with aboriginal groups were generally peaceful ; indeed, his detailed survey would not have been possible if they had been hostile.

" While there were hostile incidents at the end of Vancouver's last season – the most serious of which involved a clash with Tlingits at Behm Canal in southeast Alaska in 1794 – these were the exceptions to Vancouver's exploration of the U. S. and Canadian Northwest coast.