A silhouetted image of the statue of George Vancouver, born June 22, 1757, Kingââ¬â¢s Lynn, Norfolk, Englandââ¬âdied May 10, 1798, Richmond, Surrey, English navigator who, with great precision, completed one of the most difficult surveys ever undertaken, that of the Pacific coast of North America, from the vicinity of San Francisco northward to present-day British Columbia. At that time he verified that no continuous channel exists between the Pacific Ocean and Hudson Bay, in northeast Canada. https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Vancouver
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