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	John Meares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This caused a controversy with George Dixon, another explorer, who claimed the Meares was self-aggrandizing and falsely claimed discoveries made by others.
		Captain Meares' discoveries formed the chief basis upon which the British title to Oregon and British Columbia was based.
		Cape Meares, in the present United States state of Oregon, is named after Meares.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Meares (395 words)

	Cape Meares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cape Meares is a small headland on the Pacific coast of northwest Oregon in the United States.
		Much of the cape is part of Cape Meares State Park, which includes the Cape Meares Lighthouse.
		It is named after John Meares, a British explorer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Meares (112 words)

	Meares, John
		Meares, John, sea captain, entrepreneur, fur trader (b 1756?; d 1809).
		In 1788 Meares sailed with 2 ships to Nootka, where he built a temporary trading post and North West America, the first ship built on what is now Canada's West Coast.
		Meares was an effective propagandist in promoting British political and economic interests on the Northwest Coast.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005188 (161 words)

	Meares, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1789 his establishment at Nootka Sound was seized by the Spanish; war between England and Spain was narrowly averted.
		Meares later returned to the British navy and became (1795) a commander.
		He wrote Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 to the North West Coast of America (1790).
	www.bartleby.com /65/me/Meares-J.html (206 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Meares may have been the principal owner of the Bengal Fur Company, the firm that organized the expedition; he was certainly its guiding spirit.
		In September Meares sailed for Macao in the Feliz, leaving the Efigenia and her tender, the 40-ton schooner North West America, the first vessel of European design built on the northwest coast, to winter at the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands.
		John Meares is the author of An answer to Mr.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36674 (1037 words)

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		The expedition was intrusted to the command of Captain Meares in the Felice, Captain William Douglas, master of the Iphigenia.
		These acts of Captain Meares and his associates were assumed by the British government as the legitimate enterprise of British subjects, entitled to national recognition and justification.
		By Meares' instructions to Captain Douglas, that vessel was to spend the summer months on the northern coasts, and meet him at Nootka Sound about the 1st of September.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/or/county/union1/1889vol1/1889volumeIpage39-48.htm (4526 words)

	Sea otter fur traders
		Meares had been told by Portlock not to engage in any more trading as Meares did not possess any licenses but his first action on clearing the sound was to head east with a view to trading.
		John Meares had returned to Macao in October 1787 after a disastrous voyage to the Northwest Coast of America but he managed to persuade his backers to invest in another expedition.
		Meares was very pleased with progress on the chooner that was being built but his pleasue was shortlived when a second mutiny broke out on 28 July led by the boatswain.
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~vfur1.html (11499 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: English fur trader John Meares names Cape Disappointment on July 6, 1788.
		On July 6, 1788, English fur trader John Meares (1756?-1809) names the northern side of the entrance to the Columbia River, Cape Disappointment.
		On August 17, 1775, Heceta recorded the promontory as Cabo San Roque and the river itself (known to the Chinooks as the Yakaitl-Wimahl) as the San Roque.
		John Meares, Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the North-West Coast of America Reprint ed.
	www.historylink.org /_output.cfm?file_id=5621 (725 words)

	Canada in the Making - Glossary
		He formed two governments with John A. Macdonald from 1857 to 1858 and 1858 to 1862, in which he was co-premier.
		Meares was responsible for promoting British economic and political interests along the Pacific coast during the late 1700s.
		However, many of the 50 Chinese artisans who accompanied Meares on this trip were able to settle in the area and start families.
	www.canadiana.org /citm/reference/biographies_e.html (11053 words)

	League Trades
		John trades Pat's 1st round 1996 fall pick and John's 5th round 1996 fall pick to Geoff for Geoff's 1st round 1996 fall pick, Ted's 3rd round 1996 fall pick and Geoff's 5th round 1997 fall pick.
		John trades Giambi, John's 1st round 1999 spring pick, and John's 2nd round 1999 spring pick to Ben for Ben's 1st round 1998 fall pick, Ben's 1st round 1999 spring pick and Ben's 2nd round 1999 spring pick.
		John trades John's 1st round 1998 fall pick and John's 5th round 1998 fall pick to Pat for Brogna, Pat's 3rd round 1998 fall pick, Pat's 4th round 1998 fall pick, and Pat's 6th round 1999 spring pick.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /People/jflinn/old_league/trades.html (2472 words)

	Meares, John on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		MEARES, JOHN [Meares, John], 1756?-1809, British naval officer, explorer, and trader.
		Australian Prime Minister John Howard (3rd R front seated) attends a luncheon at theNations in New York, 14 September 2005.
		Australian Prime Minister John Howard (2nd R seated) raises his glass in a toast asNations in New York, 14 September 2005.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Meares-J1.asp (445 words)

	Canada. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		John Cabot, sailing under English auspices, touched the east coast in 1497.
		Mariners also reached the Pacific Northwest, and such men as Capt. James Cook, John Meares, and George Vancouver secured for Britain a firm hold on what is now British Columbia.
		With the country reeling from the effects of a recession, Trudeau resigned (1984) and was succeeded as head of the Liberal party and prime minister by John Turner.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/Canada.html (4925 words)

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		In 1786 {1786/00/00} John Meares made a voyage from China to Alaska, but little is known beyond the fact that the voyage was made and that his ship was called the Nootka.
		John Meares is one of the most picturesque characters in the history of Nootka.
		When Meares returned to Nootka on July 26 {1788/07/26} he found that his shipbuilders were prospering well and he started again for Clayoquot when the crew, headed by the boatswain, mutinied.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /award/mymhiwe/f897p9m4/f897p9m4.txt (18477 words)

	UCD Chemistry Faculty
		Ghaim, JB; Greiner, DP; Meares, CF; Gennis, RB.
		Murakami, K; Kimura, M; Owens, JT; Meares, CF; Ishihama, A. The two alpha subunits of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase are asymmetrically arranged and contact different halves of the DNA upstream element.
		Bown, JA, Kolb, A, Meares, CF, Ishihama, A, Minchin SD, Busby SJW.
	www-chem.ucdavis.edu /people/meares.shtml (5499 words)

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		Meares was something of a trickster and, in my opinion, a very foolish man. Meares had been a British Naval Officer during the revolution, but after the Treaty of Paris in 1783, he was put on the reserve list.
		Meares was trading for sea otter furs up in Alaska in 1786, but he could not get a full cargo that year, and here is where he made a foolish, fateful, and tragic decision.
		After establishing his base, Meares explored South, first into today’s Willapa Bay which he called Shoalwater Bay, and then to latitude 46 degrees, 10 minutes where he noticed a promontory which he though might be Hezeta’s Cape de san Roq.
	tomlaidlaw.com /essays/columbiadiscovery.doc (2316 words)

	Side Canyon: Photography by Lorran Meares, Sacred Sites: Painting with Light... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The fine-art photographs of Lorran Meares have been selected for numerous exhibitions across the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago; MIT Creative Photography Gallery; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York; Memphis Academy of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; and Schwayder Art Gallery, Denver.
		Retired college instructor, lecturer, workshop presenter and a frequent recipient of fellowships, grants and awards, Meares is an outspoken advocate for the environment and for the protection of cultural heritage and places sacred to indigenous peoples.
		A resident of Santa Fe, Meares and his wife, Charlotte, are working on a book about the art of the Darién Rainforest.
	www.sidecanyon.com /lorran_meares.htm (357 words)

	Pacific Book Auction Galleries Sale 146
		George Dixon by John Meares, and Further Remarks on the Voyages of John Meares, by George Dixon.
		Jewitt, John R. The Adventures of John Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of nearly Three Years Among Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island.
		Jewitt, John R. Narratives of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt While Held as Captive of the Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island, 1803 to 1805.
	www.pbagalleries.com /catalogs/curcat146-5.html (5339 words)

	The John Buttle Story
		Named after the explorer John Buttle, this lake is 32 kilometres long and is found nestled within the confines of Strathcona Provincial Park.
		There John Buttle and his party had to deal with angry prospectors who had rushed to the Bear River upon hearing of gold, only to be disillusioned by the quantities.
		Whether John Buttle ever saw the lake that bears his name we shall never know for certain but it is a fitting name for one of the most beautiful lakes on Vancouver Island.
	members.shaw.ca /beyondnootka/articles/buttle.html (2031 words)

	Oregon History Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		British maritime fur trader John Meares included this engraving in his narrative entitled, Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the North West Coast of America, first published in 1790.
		John Meares began his career at sea with the Royal Navy in 1771.
		Meares then ordered the construction of a smaller vessel, the North West America, for use in local trading along the coastal waters.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=3445F98A-06A9-43FC-308C71516CA80A61 (420 words)

	John Oxendine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This John was born to Charles Oxendine, born 1741, son of the Original John Oxendine of Virginia...
		John was raised and educated in Dekalb County...
		John Oxendine, the commissioner for Georgia who is heading the investigation, said....
	www.jamme.co.uk /John-Oxendine.html (342 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In July of 1788, the English explorer John Meares entered a shallow bay that he named Shoalwater (later called Willapa Bay).
		Noting that the coastal shoreline supported “a perfect forest,” Meares explained that “this bay extended a considerable way inland, spreading into several arms or branches to the northward and eastward.
		John Jacob Astor, inspired by the reports of Lewis and Clark, established an American fur-trading outpost at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1811.
	www.pncers.org /heritage/Era1_Pages/map.html (446 words)

	History Nootka Sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		By 1788, other trading companies had been created, and John Meares brought European and Chinese workmen.
		At Yuquot they erected a dwelling and a shipyard on land that Meares claimed he had acquired from Chief Maquinna.
		Meares sped to London, where he exaggerated his losses.
	www.village.goldriver.bc.ca /pages/hist_Nootka.html (1366 words)

	News Releases
		Meares, born in England in about 1756, joined the Royal Navy at the age of 15, served on a number of British naval vessels, and fought in the American Revolution.
		Furthermore, he failed to explore the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and although he saw its mouth, he thought the Columbia River was a bay and thus missed the opportunity to be the first non-native to explore it.
		Through careful research and thoughtful commentary Nokes shows readers that although Meares only came close to being a maritime hero, his ambitions were great and his adventures were indeed important to history.
	www.wsu.edu /NIS/releases2/se100.htm (254 words)

	Nootka Sound
		John Meares, the British explorer, established a trading post on Nootka Sound in 1788.
		John Meares - Meares, John, 1756?–1809, British naval officer, explorer, and trader.
		John Kendrick - Kendrick, John, c.1740–1794, American sea captain, b.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0835847.html (190 words)

	Historic Nootka Sound
		Aboard he had a man by the name of John Webber, whose job it was to provide drawings and water-colours of the sights and peoples that they met.
		One such expedition was commanded by John Meares who arrived first in 1786, then in 1788, where upon he built a small trading post at Friendly Cove.
		One of the survivors, John Jewitt, became Maquinna’s slave and lived nearly 3 years among the Nootka.
	www.mvuchuck.com /historic.htm (8989 words)

	Cape Meares Lighthouse, Oregon at Lighthousefriends.com
		Originally, Cape Meares was named Cape Lookout by explorer Captain John Meares in 1788.
		Today Cape Meares Lighthouse is part of Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint and is managed by Friends of Cape Meares Lighthouse.
		Cape Meares is the northernmost of the three capes along the Three Capes Scenic Route, Cape Kiwanda and Cape Lookout being the other two.
	www.lighthousefriends.com /light.asp?ID=134 (869 words)

	The Center for Volunteer Caregiving
		John M. Meares, Sr., founding member of the Center for Volunteer Caregiving, died on December 28, 2005 at the age of 94.
		Meares attended a national meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Florida and heard of the interfaith volunteer caregiving projects.
		Meares spearheaded the efforts that led to The Center.
	www.volunteercaregiving.org (601 words)

	Explorers of the 1700's
		John Meares was a former British Navy lieutenant when he undertook his first voyage to the Pacific Northwest in 1786 and 1787, in order to enter the fur trade which at that time had been dominated by the Russians.
		However, the ensuing controversy was settled amicably between Britain and Spain resulting in the Nootka Convention whereby both countries would continue to trade in the regions formerly occupied by Spain.
		The surveys and drawings completed by John Meares on his two voyages were published first in London in 1790 and the French edition came out in 1794.
	www.gracegalleries.com /Explorers.htm (761 words)

	Polar Notes II
		Meares assumed that she had sailed for China; as it proved, she was never heard of again.
		Meares had no alternative but to accept these terms; first, because of his virtually helpless condition, and, secondly, because he had neglected to secure a trading license from the South Sea Company.
		Meares was a braggart, much given to pretence and exaggeration, and the circumstances that his memorial almost precipitated a war with Spain has made him loom larger in history than he probably deserves.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~arctic/Polar_Notes/polar2.html (12692 words)

	ABCBookWorld
		John Nicol was a sober, Bible-reading man who twice circumnavigated the globe.
		He described Meares’ predicament aboard the Nootka: “There were only the captain and two men free from disease.
		When Nicol was sixty-seven, his chance encounter with a generous bookbinder, publisher, editor and self-described “polyartist” named John Howell in Edinburgh allowed Nicol, as a destitute sailor, to dictate and publish his memoirs.
	www.abcbookworld.com /?state=view_author&author_id=4530 (648 words)

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