Bodega y Quadra wrote, however, that it was Vancouver who made the suggestion of combining their names to designate some geographical feature.

Explorer George Vancouver retired to Petersham, where he wrote the Voyage of Discovery whilst living in what is now called " Glen Cottage " in River Lane.

In a letter to Alexander Cameron Rutherford in early 1906, while he was in the process of setting up McGill University College in Vancouver, Tory wrote, " If you take any steps in the direction of a working University and wish to avoid the mistakes of the past, mistakes which have fearfully handicapped other institutions, you should start on a teaching basis.

The Vancouver Sun wrote, " It may have backfired on him ... may instead have ended up giving conformity a vehicle that allowed it to appear nonconforming.

Two years later, Frederick Whymper, a member of the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition, visited Robb's land, and wrote, " Here Mr. Robb with laudable faith in the country has pre-empted land though the site is principally bush: when he could have got good prairie land as he came among the first two years ago.

* In 2010, Canadian composer Stefan Smulovitz wrote a score for string quartet, brass, percussion, pipe organ, & solo voice, which premiered at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver, BC.

Willis says that he wrote the song in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Bob Hersh of Track & Field News wrote, " The build-up was probably the greatest for any single footrace since the historic ' Miracle Mile ' at Vancouver, British Columbia in 1954.

Vancouver songwriters Dan Swinimer and Jeff Johnson wrote a country song commemorating Sittler's 60th birthday called " The Darryl Sittler Song ".

Vancouver used the name " Hood's Channel " in his journal, but wrote " Hood's Canal " on his charts.

It was given by George Vancouver in 1792, who wrote: The low sandy point of land, which from its great resemblance to Dungeness in the British Channel, I called New Dungeness.

The spit was named by explorer George Vancouver in 1792, who wrote: " The low sandy point of land, which from its great resemblance to Dungeness in ths British Channel, I called New Dungeness.

Recorded over a period of five nights in Vancouver, Foster wrote, arranged, produced and played piano for the project ( which included a recording of the theme for the 1988 Winter Olympics ) with the assistance of Jeremy Lubbock, David Paich, and Lee Ritenour.

George Vancouver, who used the name in his maps and writings, wrote that the sound was named by Mr. S. Wedgeborough, in command of the Experiment under James Strange, but Vancouver was wrong — Strange was the one who gave the name.

Klaus Bockmuehl, Professor of Theology and Ethics, Regent College, Vancouver and author of Listening to the God Who Speaks, wrote: " The genius of Moral Re-Armament is to bring the central spiritual substance of Christianity ( which it often demonstrates in a fresher and more powerful way than do the Churches ) in a secular and accessible form.

Her next position was with a newspaper in Vancouver, British Columbia, where for two years she wrote drama reviews.

During their meetings Bodega y Quadra asked Vancouver to name " some port or Island after us both " ( however, Bodega wrote in his journal that it was Vancouver who made the suggestion ).

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 ):

Between 1991 and 1994 he wrote the theme and incidental music for the CBC teen drama " Northwood ", shot in North and West Vancouver, BC.

Cockett wrote, " On the strength of his reputation with the IEA, he was invited in 1975 to become co-director of the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, founded by the Canadian businessman T. Patrick Boyle in 1974.

However, making what he described as a " sixth sense hunch ", Patrick wrote a second letter inviting MacKay to try out for his team in Vancouver.

About a Vancouver production at the Firehall Arts Centre in 1993, The Vancouver Sun's Barbara Crook wrote The Crackwalker is not theatre for the timid.

He was interred in an unmarked pauper's grave until 1961 when, as the result of fundraising efforts begun by a Vancouver sports writer, a memorial plaque was finally placed on his grave.

The group in Vancouver, however, did not give up their efforts to have a franchise in the WIFU.

Unsuccessful efforts were made to bring the NBA's relocating Charlotte Hornets and Vancouver Grizzlies to Louisville, along with the Houston Rockets at a time that they were demanding a new arena.

A testament to his efforts off the ice in Vancouver, Linden has been a recipient of the King Clancy Memorial Trophy ( 1997 ) and the NHL Foundation Player Award ( 2008 ), honours awarded by the NHL to players for significant contributions in his community.

Today he is the co-founder, chair, and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies in Vancouver, a consulting firm that provides paid public relations efforts, lectures, lobbying, opinions and committee participation to government and industry on a wide range of environmental and sustainability issues.

In recent years, numerous cities such as Vancouver, Seattle and Salt Lake City, have had great success in constructing new central libraries as part of downtown revitalization efforts.

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 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra ( VSO ) was founded by the Vancouver Symphony Society in 1930, largely through the efforts of arts patron Elisabeth Rogers.

Through his efforts, the pre-war partners who sponsored Parliament ( Protestant churches and YMCA ) joined forces to establish a Parliamentary Convention in Vancouver to rebuild the organization.

This establishment came as part of the efforts by the provincial government to capitalize on the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

The entirely female operator staff joined in 1902 in what was one of the earliest successful efforts to organize women workers in Vancouver.

An article on the tree ’ s passing in the Vancouver Sun reads more like an obituary than news story, quoting former Vancouver Member of Parliament, H. H. Stevens as saying “ I ’ ve known that tree for about 68 years now and I ’ m sorry the tree has died because it was one of our main attractions in Stanley Park .” A park superintendent felt sure that it was “ virtually impossible to establish another fir up on the rock from a young plant .” Less than three years later, however, while park crews were still working to restore the park ’ s forest from the devastation of Typhoon Freda, persistent efforts were rewarded when new saplings finally began taking root.

Vancouver determined that the Northwest Passage did not exist at the latitudes that had long been suggested.

Vancouver originally believed it to be one island, Dundas's Island, but it was later determined that it was in fact a small archipelago.

The judge determined the Vancouver Sun defamed Robbins when it called him a hypocrite.

Carr determined to give up teaching and work in Vancouver, and in 1913 she returned to Victoria where several of her sisters still lived.

Another double salmonberry was found by Phyllis Munday of Vancouver, British Columbia, but neither the date nor the site has been determined.

Since Vancouver had determined that the land upon which Nootka stood was a great island, he proposed that they name it Quadra's and Vancouver's Island: " would name some port or island after us both in commemoration of our meeting and friendly intercourse that on that occasion had taken place ( Vancouver had previously feted Quadra on his ship );.... and conceiving no place more eligible than the place of our meeting, I have therefore named this land ... The Island of Quadra and Vancouver.

Yates returned to Vancouver, determined to take another shot at making FFE work, and in 2006 recorded not only the video for " Closer ", but the band's second album, Aftershock, under his own label, Echoman Records.

In 1991, while pitching for the Vancouver Canadians of the Pacific Coast League, Hernández experienced numbness in his pitching hand, later determined to be caused by blood clots.