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disappeared, being properly swallowed up by the original 

 Indian name. In the next year Perez again made his appear- 

 ance on the coast and took possession of the northwest coast 

 as far as Alaska, not finding, however, any passage ; in fact 

 shrouding whatever discoveries he made in the obscurity of 

 deliberate concealment. His connection with our country is 

 remembered in the place-name Juan Pei^es Sound in Queen 

 Charlotte Islands.* 



England now came to the front in the practical way that 

 has made her so successful. She offered a reward of ;^20,ooo 

 to the discoverer of a passage north of the 52nd parallel. In 

 March, 1778, Capt. Cook left the Sandwich Islands on his 

 homeward trip after his voyage of circumnavigation and took 

 the northern course, sighted Cape Flattery and concluded his 

 narrative by writing when in latitude 69° 32' ; " We are now 

 upwards of 520 leagues to the westward of any part of Baffin's 

 or Hudson's Bav and whatever passage there may be, it, or at 

 least part of it, must be to the north of latitude 72°. Be- 

 yond naming the places he visited and making a small 

 collection of furs he did little. That little, however, was of 

 great importance. It changed the current of mercantile 

 thought. If there was no passage, there were furs. There 

 was business to be done and if the passage should be found 

 well and good. It ceased to be the primary object. In con- 

 sequence, there were the fur-trading explorations of Hanna, of 

 Strange, of Portlock and Dixon, all of 1786; and Barclay's 

 expedition of 1787, accompanying which was Mrs. Barclay, 

 probably the first European woman to visit that part of the 

 North Pacific Coast. Hanna named Sea Otter Sound and 

 Fitzhugh Sound. To Strange we are indebted for Cape Scott^ 

 named after one of the Bombay merchants who fitted out his 

 vessels. Dixon's memory is perpetuated in Dixon Straits 

 and it was he who named Queen Charlotte Islands. Barclay 

 is remembered in Barclay Sound. 



Other expeditions were that of Meares in 1787-89 whose 

 shipbuilding operations resulted in a quarrel between Spain 

 and Great Britain only settled by a treaty signed at Madrid in 

 1794 ; the Kendric and Grey Expedition of 1788, the ships in 

 this instance flying the United States flag ; (they named the 

 Columbian River after one of their vessels and thus indirectly 

 gave us the place-name of the Pacific province, British Col- 



*Anyone who wishes to study the Queen Charlotte Islands from the 

 place-name point of view cannot do hetter than consult Dr. George 

 Pawson's inonograph in the Geological Survej^ Report of 1878-79, 



