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The Burrara _n.lec Pilotage 1^79 - 1920 and the Caulfeild Pilot Station* It is nearly four hundred years since Sir Francis Drake became, in all probability, the first white man to see the coast of British Columbia^ and almost two hundred since Captain George Vancouver sailed from Birch Bay north, 2 into the Gulf of Georgia and Burrard Inlet. However, while the two centuries between these two visits saw little development on the coast of British Columbia, the subsequent two hundred years have witnessed a radical change in the area. From the almost deserted forest-lined shore that greeted Vancouver's eyes^ have grown the urban centreswith their high-rise buildings, industrial areas and deep sea docks, that are typical of south-western British Columbia today. From the initial few ships that travelled B.C. waters in the eignteenth century, beginning with the naval survey vessels of the Spaniards and British and the handful of early fur-trading vessels, shipping in the Pacific North West has increased to the extent that in 196? the net tonnage of vessels 1. G.P.V. Akrigg and Helen Akrigg, B.C* Chronicle, 177^ - l^i^6. Discovery Press, Vancouver, B.C. 1975, P6. 2. J.S. I4arehall and Carrie Marshall, Vancouver's Voyage, Mitchell Press, Vancouver, B.C. 2nd edition, 196?, Pp. 34 - 39