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I suppose this applies as much to the Quimper and Narvaez and Eliza and other Spanish-captain/exploration articles as it does to Vancouver's and others; I know these guys made tribal contacts, it would be good to say which ones; I'll usually be able to tell by their landings, unless they mention ship-to-canoe encounters in your source which are a bit more iffy sometimes, i.e. as to where the canoe might be from; usually it's local or known to be local, from what I recall. Excellent article, just think some more local colour would help; it's not like these guys were in uninhabited territory. BTW please see [Talk:Local history]]Skookum1 (talk) 04:32, 14 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Yea, I'll try to add something about contacts with local natives. I don't think the Carrasco / Narvaez trip into the Strait of Georgia had many -- it was a quick voyage. But there was something about their making note of villages in a few places -- at Vancouver's Point Grey even. I wrote up the article rather fast and didn't get to that info. There's a lot more such stuff wrt the larger Eliza expedition and the Quimper one before. And the other Spanish too. I believe Galiano mentions a "very poor" native village at the head of Indian Arm, Burrard Inlet. Then there's the "table with hieroglyphs" they found in Toba Inlet (Spanish "Tabla".. I assume the English name is an Anglicized version). But yea -- it has been tricky working out the complex roles of the various Spanish people -- who commanded what and when, who went where and why, and so on. I'm still fuzzy on a few key parts. So I have focused on getting that stuff right, at the expense of less time on native contact. But yes -- such info is needed. ...I didn't mean to write as detailed a page as this turned out to be -- Carrasco was after all only a pilot serving under others mostly. The info here really ought to also be on the pages for Quimper, Narvaez, Eliza, etc etc. And Mourelle doesn't have a page at all! So much to do. Someday I'll finish that Columbia Department map too! Pfly (talk) 05:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
