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In 1792, the Spanish explorer Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and his crew were the first Europeans to circumnavigate Vancouver Island.
On April 8, 1806 Captain John D ' Wolf of Bristol, Rhode Island sailed the Juno to Newettee, a small inlet in the northwestern promontory of Vancouver's Island.
The Captain described Newette as one of the southernmost harbors frequented by American fur traders at lat.
51 degrees N. and long.
128 degrees.
He relates that since Captain Robert Gray of Tiverton, Rhode Island sailed the Columbia River in 1792, the trade of the Northwest coast had been almost entirely in the hands of Boston merchants, so much so that the natives called all traders " Boston Men.
" While we know this island today as Vancouver Island the English explorer had not intentionally meant to name such a large body of land solely after himself.
In his September 1792 dispatch log report for the British Admiralty, Captain Vancouver reveals that his decision here was rather meant to honour a request by the Spanish Peruvian seafarer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra that Vancouver:
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