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HISTORY-ONICS VOL.19 NO. 5 NOVEMBER 2001 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY END OF THE NORTHERN MYSTERY: Europeans and Fuca, 1790-1792 Our speaker in November will be Robin Inglis, director of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives. He has mounted exhibitions on early coastal exploration and has written and lectured widely on the subject, particularly concerning the Spanish. He has a history degree from Cambridge, and a degree in museum studies from Toronto. He wrote a number of entries in the recently published Encyclopedia of British Columbia and next year has been invited to give a paper in England on the Spanish explorer Alejandro Malaspina at a conference to celebrate Captain Cook and the 18th century European voyages to the Pacific. In his November talk to us, Robin Inglis will cover the fascinating subject of English and Spanish explorations into our local waters, and around Vancouver Island, at the end of the 18th century. For centuries there had been widespread belief, particularly amongst armchair geographers in Europe, that there was a passage, a navigable waterway, between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Because the Northwest coast of America remained unvisited, largely as a result of adverse winds and distance, the northern mystery remained until the English and Spanish first came here in the 1770s and began their explorations that would change the coast and its peoples for ever. Why did they come? And what is the legacy of those times? Come to the meeting and find out. Robin will show us some of his wonderful slides and we shall be entertained as well as educated! tors of the West torical Society rs and friends aristmas and Happy New Year « L The Next General Meeting Will be held on Wednesday November 28th 2001, at 7:00 pm in the Activity Room of the West Vancouver Seniors' Activity Centre. 685-21st Street (parking off Fulton Avenue, between 21st and 22nd Streets). All Visitors are Welcome What's Inside: Executive Report........................2 West Vancouver School Memories..........3 Christmas Party Invitation...............5 Train Wreck at Fisherman's Cove..........7 Museum News - Staff Changes.............8