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Chief Maquinna and Bodega Y Quadra Commemorates the First Friendly Meeting of by Freeman M Volume 34, No. 4 BRITISH COLUMBIA Fall 2001 $5.00 HISTORICAL NEWS ISSN 1195-8294 Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation Our Spanish Heritage Mexican Base A Unique Friendship Sailing in Northern Waters Deception at Mud Bay Uncovering Malaspina Yuquot Museo de América, Madrid. Courtesy Robin Inglis Madrid. América, Museo de Detail from a 1791 drawing by José Cardero— artist on the Malaspina Expedition— of Special Issue the battery of San Miguel built in 1789 at the entry to Friendly Cove. At that time some 75 soldiers were stationed at Yuquot . Not all went well: “... it seems that Spanish Spanish presence officials struggled to control their troops. Spain’s five-year sojourn at Nootka Sound on BC’s coast was peppered with incidents of violence. Spanish troops chased Native women for sex and took house boards from Native villages.” (Quotation from p 106 of David W. 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Publishing Committee British Columbia Historical News: see column on the left BCHF Web site: Eileen Mak 779 East 31st Ave., Vancouver BC V5V 2W9 Phone 604.875.8023 [email protected] Our Web site, HTTP://BCHF.BC.CA, is hosted by Selkirk College in Castlegar, BC Volume 34, No. 4 BRITISH COLUMBIA Fall 2001 $5.00 HISTORICAL NEWS ISSN 1195-8294 Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation 2 A Spanish Heritage for British Columbia A Precious Spanish Heritage. by Robin Inglis In her book On Stormy Seas, B. Guild 4 British Columbia’s Mexican Connection: The Naval Gillespie recalls the mysterious disappearance Base at San Blas 1768-1810 of the words “It was Dawn for Britain, but by Nick Doe Twighlight for Spain” from a plaque on the Spanish Banks hill in Vancouver. The plaque 8 Chief Maquinna and Bodega y Quadra commemorates the first friendly meeting of by Freeman M. Tovell the captains Vancouver, Galiano, and Valdés 15 Jacinto Caamaño: A Spaniard in BC’s Northern Waters on the waters off Point Grey. That “correc- tion” of the plaque happened just before the by John Crosse Spanish Monarchs visited Vancouver in 21 Translating Malaspina March 1984. The removal of the wording by Andrew David was an act of courtesy and diplomacy. In this issue we like to think about the 23 Fraudulent Bay: Spanish Explorations of Boundary Bay friendly encounter on the waters off Span- by Nick Doe ish Banks, not in the context of an interna- tional European confrontation but with an 29 Reports: A Narrative From Friendly Cove emphasis on the spirit of co-operation of by Robert Eberle those mariners as well as awareness of this 45 Archives and Archivists briefly shared past of British Columbians, British Columbia’s Moving Past, Preserved Native and non-Native, and Spain. Our precious Spanish heritage is remem- by Dennis J. Duffy bered mostly by a multitude of geographi- 44 Token History: Two Diaries cal names; names respected by contempo- by Ronald Greene rary and later explorers, mariners, British, and British Columbian. Those names give proof of the pioneering work done by these peo- 20 THE A LEXANDRO MALASPINA RESEARCH CENTRE ple in exploring and describing our coastal by John Black regions and those who lived here. Yes, there 32 BOOK REVIEWS is much history to be told about the Spanish 40 FAMILY HISTORY by Brenda L. Smith voyages and presence and fortunately there 38 WEB-SITE FORAYS by Gwen Szychter are now an increasing number of British Columbians and historians elsewhere actively 45 INNOVATION & IMAGINATION by Patrick A. Dunae involved in the research of that part of BC’s 46 NEWS AND NOTEs history. 48 FEDERATION NEWS In 1971, in the fourth year of BC Histori- REVELSTOKE 2002 cal News, founder of the journal and editor Philip Yandle published a 10-page article by Tomàs Bartroli, then at UBC, on the Span- ish presence on the Northwest Coast. Near nothing else was published on the subject in “Any country worthy of a future should be interested in its past.” the following thirty years. This issue should W. Kaye Lamb, 1937 correct that omission…somewhat. A warm gracias to the authors. THE EDITOR BC HISTORICAL NEWS - FALL 2001 1 A Spanish Heritage for British Columbia by Robin Inglis Robin Inglis is director T THE end of the fifteenth century, a pa- Following Spanish involvement in the Ameri- of the North Vancouver pal division of the world encouraged and can War of Independence, the arrival of traders Museum and Archives sanctioned the expansion of Europe by in the North Pacific and the threatening visit of and president of A dividing the world between Spain and Portugal. La Pérouse’s French expedition to the North- Vancouver’s Spanish Spanish conquests in the Americas were thus le- west Coast in 1786 led to renewed Spanish ac- Pacific Historical Society. In 1991, as gitimized, and Spain claimed the entire Pacific tivity. Esteban José Martínez explored the Alaskan director of the Vancou- coast of North and South America. Vast distances coast north and west to Unalaska Island in 1788, ver Maritime Museum, and adverse sailing conditions, however, combined returning to Mexico with information that sug- he and author and with the demands of Spain’s Central and South gested a Russian plan to occupy Nootka. The historian John American empire, to thwart Spanish exploration Spanish decided to move first and in 1789 Kendrick, developed of the coast beyond southern California, with Martínez led an expedition to Vancouver Island the major exhibition, the result that the Northwest Coast (Oregon, where they established themselves on the site of “Enlightened Voyages,” Washington, British Columbia and Alaska) was the Mowachaht village of Yuquot in Friendly and an international the last temperate region to be confirmed on the Cove. Here Martínez seized British fur trading symposium to cel- world map. vessels, which had arrived to set up a trading post ebrate the bicentennial of the visit of the Spanish exploration in the late eighteenth cen- in the wake of the Cook expedition’s discovery Malaspina Expedition tury was motivated by concern over a Russian of the high value of sea otter furs in China.
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