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Point Atkinsort Lif^hthouse The earliest charts of the Pacific Northwest, those of the Spaniards who explored this area in the »»Quimper” and "Eliza” in 1790, mark the headland we know as Point Atkinson, as Bodega^ - a name that appears to have lasted only a year or two, for with the arrival of Captain George Vancouver on the heels of the Spaniards, the point received the name by which it is known to-day. On June 12, 1792, Captain George Vancouver, in the yavil from H.M.S. "Discovery”, set off from Birch Bay to 2 explore the coastline immediately north of this anchorage , passing from Point Roberts to Point Grey on June 13 and thence into the present harbour of Vancouver, Which inlet he named Burrards 3 Canal "after Sir Harry Burrard of the na\’y” . Captain Vancouver’s diary for June 14, 1792 continues "by 7 o’clock we had reached the N.W. point of the channel, which .forips also the south point of the main branch of the sound, this also, after Ir Henry R, V/agner, Spanish Exploration in the Strait of Juan i de Fuca, Santa Ana Fine Arts Press, 1933, as quoted in P.S. V/alden, History of West Vancouver, University of British Columbia, M.A. Thesis, 1947. 2. J.S. Marshall and C. Marshall, Vancouver’s Voyage, Mitchell Press, Vancouver, 2nd edition, 1967, p.33. 3. Ibid. - p. 37.