As of the Nootka Conventions, the last in 1794, Spain gave up its exclusive a priori claims and agreed to share the region with the other Powers, giving up its garrison at Nootka Sound in the process.

Competition between Spain and the United Kingdom over control of Nootka Sound led to a bitter international dispute around 1790, called the Nootka Crisis, which was settled with the Nootka Conventions of the 1790s, when Spain agreed to abandon its exclusive claims to the North Pacific coast.

Spain gave up its claims of exclusivity via the Nootka Conventions of the 1790s.

In the Nootka Conventions, which followed the Nootka Crisis Spain granted Britain rights to the Pacific Northwest, although it did not establish a northern boundary for Spanish California, nor did it extinguish Spanish rights to the Pacific Northwest.

However, despite these claims, the English did not establish a colonizing presence on the west coast of North America until the late 18th century in the form of the explorations and asserted claims of Captains Cook and Vancouver and the associated Nootka Conventions, shortly after, the establishment of the Columbia Fur District of the Hudson's Bay Company and its headquarters at Fort Vancouver.

The Nootka Sound Conventions were a series of three agreements between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed in the 1790s which averted a war between the two empires over overlapping claims to portions of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.

Although the Nootka Conventions theoretically opened the Pacific Northwest coast from northern California to Alaska to British colonization, the advent of the Napoleonic Wars distracted any efforts towards this ( as recommended by Vancouver at the time ) and the proposed settlement colony in the region was to be abandoned.

The Hudson's Bay Company, the remaining British presence in the region, was averse to settlement and any economic activity other than its own, such that settlement and resource development did not take place to any degree until the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858, which formalized British claims on the mainland still residual from the Nootka Conventions into the Colony of British Columbia.

War between Spain and Great Britain over control of the Pacific Northwest was averted by the three Nootka Conventions, signed in 1790, 1793, and 1794.

The United States argued that it acquired the Spanish rights to exclusive ownership of the Pacific Northwest as far north as Alaska, even though Spain had in fact relinquished any claim to exclusive rights as a result of the Nootka Conventions.

In 1791 he was appointed Spanish commissioner to negotiate and administer the implementation of the Nootka Conventions at Nootka Sound.

The Spanish-British Nootka Conventions of the 1790s ended Spanish exclusivity and opened the Northwest Coast to explorers and traders from other nations, most notably Britain, Russia, and the fledgling United States.

Spain ceded their rights north of the 42nd Parallel to the United States by the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty, ( but not possession, which was disallowed by the terms of the Nootka Conventions ).

After establishing a base at Nootka, Eliza sent out several exploration parties.

As a result, the Spanish explorers, who had set out from Nootka, became the first Europeans to circumnavigate Vancouver Island.

* The Nuu-chah-nulth ( also known as the Nootka ) believe menarche to be a time for a physical strength test ; the girl is taken out to sea and left alone.

The terrified women ran up the mountains, but turned into Nootka Cypress trees when they were out of breath.

At his resort, Gibson had a totem pole which he had arranged to fly out from Nootka Sound to Maui.

( 2004 ) pointed out that an earlier genus name Callitropsis had been given to Nootka Cypress, so they transferred the Vietnamese Golden Cypress to this genus.

They are part of the Nootka Confederacy and governed by the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council.

He sailed from Calcutta on 12 March 1786, in the Nootka, a vessel of two hundred tons, with which he explored part of the coast of Alaska.

The journals of many people who visited Nootka Sound during the summer of 1792 record amazement at the grandeur of Bodega's dinners, especially at such a remote part of the world, at which over fifty people would be served many courses on Bodega's personal collection of about 300 pieces of silver dinner ware.

The Vancouver Island part of the Comox Strathcona Regional District stretches all the way across the island from east to west, and north to south between Sayward and the Denman and Hornby Islands on its east coast, and between Nootka Island and the Brooks Peninsula on its west coast, including most of Strathcona Provincial Park.

The island was originally named Quadra's and Vancouver's Island in commemoration of the friendly negotiations held by Spanish Commander of the Nootka Sound settlement Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, and British Naval Captain George Vancouver on Nootka Sound in 1792, to find a solution to the Nootka Crisis.

Working in the traditional forms and modern media ( usually gold, silver and argillite ), he began by making jewelry before branching into larger sculptures in bronze, red cedar and Nootka Cypress ( yellow cedar ) usually portraying figures, animals, and scenes from folklore, which was meant to bring his ancestors visual traditions into a contemporary form.

There followed the Nootka Crisis, which was resolved by agreements known as the Nootka Convention.

The expedition returned to Nootka Sound by August 1791.

In 1790 a dispute by Britain and Spain over the Nootka Sound on the Pacific coast of North America threatened to spark a war between the two states.

The two parent species would not likely cross in the wild as their natural ranges are more than 400 miles apart, but in 1888 the hybrid cross occurred when the female flowers or cones of Nootka Cypress were fertilised by pollen from Monterey Cypress.

This species goes by many common names including Nootka Cypress, Yellow Cypress, and Alaska Cypress.

The Nootka Cypress is used extensively by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, along with another cypress, Thuja plicata ( Western Red Cedar ).

The Juan de Fuca plate is bounded on the south by the Blanco Fracture Zone ( running northeast off the coast of Oregon, USA ), on the north by the Nootka Fault ( running southwest off Nootka Island, near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada ), and along the west by the Pacific Plate ( which covers most of the Pacific Ocean and is the largest of Earth's tectonic plates ).

The controversy resulted in the abandonment of the Nootka Sound settlement by the Spanish.

** Nootka fur trader-captured by the Franklin

Meares instructed Colnett to establish a permanent fur trading post at Nootka Sound based on the foothold accomplished by Meares the year before.

This, in addition to the increasing use of Nootka Sound by British fur traders, resulted in the Spanish decision to assert sovereignty on the northwest coast once and for all.

He submitted a report to the Home secretary William Wyndham Grenville, in which he exaggerated the permanence of his settlement in Nootka Sound and the financial losses sustained by his company.

Colnett had come to Nootka Sound intending to build a permanent trading post and colony on land previously acquired by his business associate John Meares.

For this purpose the British Naval Captain George Vancouver was sent to Nootka Sound in 1792.

War was averted with the Nootka Convention, which led to George Vancouver's historic voyage in HMS Discovery.

When George Vancouver, at Nootka Sound again in September 1794, learned of Bodega's death, he wrote in his journal ( grammar and misspellings from the original ):