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	AllRefer.com - Nootka Sound, Canada (Canadian Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Nootka Sound, inlet of the Pacific Ocean and natural harbor on the west coast of Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada, lying between the mainland and Nootka Island (206 sq mi/534 sq km).
		John Meares, the British explorer, established a trading post on Nootka Sound in 1788.
		The Nootka Convention (1790) resolved the dispute and opened the N Pacific coast to British settlement.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NootkaSo.html (222 words)

	Historic Nootka Sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These matters were resolved at the first Nootka Convention of 1790, in which Spain was to return all seized property to Britain and that the West Coast be open to both Spanish and British traders.
		S oon after the Spanish departure from Nootka, trade in the area began to decrease, fewer and fewer ships came to trade as the sea otter population was drastically reduced.
		Oral tradition among the Nootka holds that they spied one sailor with a hooked nose and another who was a hunchback and identified them in turn with the dog salmon and the humpback salmon, an indication of their fish-like origins.
	www.mvuchuck.com /historic.htm (9137 words)

	Nootka Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nootka Convention was a treaty between Spain and Great Britain in 1790 that averted a war between the two countries over overlapping claims to portions of the northwestern coast of North America.
		The treaty resolved a situation begun when Spain seized Nootka Island, which was claimed by both parties.
		The Nootka Convention resolved the dispute and opened the Pacific coast from Oregon to British Columbia to British settlement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nootka_Convention (95 words)

	History Nootka Sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first residents of Nootka Sound were the Mowachaht and Muchalaht peoples, who had a rich existence and culture based on whaling and river fishing.
		Due to the sea otter fur trade, Nootka (Yuquot) was the key port north of Mexico for several years.
		Nootka Sound also was the site of the first brewing (spruce beer), agriculture (livestock and vegetable gardens), shipbuilding (the schooner "Northwest America"), and logging (spars for Captain Cook's "Resolution") by Europeans on the B. coast.
	www.village.goldriver.bc.ca /pages/hist_Nootka.html (1366 words)

	Nootka Sound - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nootka Sound is an inlet of the Pacific Ocean and a natural harbour on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada, separating Vancouver Island and Nootka Island.
		The Nootka Convention resolved the dispute in 1790.
		The sound is named after the Nootka, a group of people who live mostly on Vancouver Island.
	www.iridis.com /Nootka_Sound (126 words)

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		Nootka had become the rendezvous and usual port of departure of vessels laden with return cargo.
		Captain Vancouver was never put in possession of Nootka harbor and the adjacent coast; not even the "small spot of ground," for the use of which, while the party should be building a schooner, Captain Meares had presented to Maquilla, the native chief, a pair of pistols.
		Whether such war abrogated the Nootka Treaty, and reinstated in their original condition territorial rights claimed to have been regulated or acquired under such treaty, are questions which have been greatly discussed.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/or/county/union1/1889vol1/1889volumeIpage39-48.htm (4527 words)

	Nootka Sound. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Nootka Sound, inlet of the Pacific Ocean and natural harbor on the W coast of Vancouver Isl., SW B.C., Canada, lying bet.
		The sound itself was visited by Capt. James Cook (1778), who was the 1st European to land in that region.
		The Nootka Convention (1790) resolved the dispute and opened the N Pacific coast to Br.
	www.bartleby.com /69/37/N04237.html (143 words)

	Nootka Sound
		The sound was likely first explored by James COOK in 1778, although Peréz Hernandez had approached it 4 years earlier.
		In the ensuing NOOTKA SOUND CONTROVERSY, Spain eventually agreed to a convention (1794) according to which both nations were free to navigate and fish in the Pacific, to trade and establish settlements.
		At first the Nootka prospered from the sea-otter fur trade that followed European explorations, but the introduction of diseases such as SMALLPOX virtually wiped them out.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=A&SectionId=642939&mState=1 (145 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The fur trader Charles Bishop was at Nootka Sound that year and he observed that Muquinna the elder was very ill. A few weeks later when he was at Clayoquot Sound, Bishop noted in his journal that Wikinanish, chief there, had informed him of the death of Muquinna.
		In 1786 Alexander Walker* had visited Nootka Sound with the expedition of James Charles Stuart Strange* and he noted that Muquinna the elder was “blind with age” and that Muquinna the younger had already assumed leadership.
		The provisions of the Nootka Convention, had resulted in the withdrawal of the Spanish establishment from Friendly Cove in 1795.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36696 (1035 words)

	PWAC Victoria: Lyn Hancock, Writing Sample (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lyn returns by kayak to Nootka Sound, the birthplace of modern B.C., to look for sea otters, scout paddling routes, and renew friendships with the people of Friendly Cove, first met 31 years before when she cruised these waters in a rubber boat.
		In 1792, Captains Vancouver and Quadra patched things up between England and Spain in England's favour (the Nootka Convention), and in 1795, the Spaniards abandoned their buildings and gardens, which were soon scooped up by Chief Maquinna when he returned from his winter village at Tahsis.
		In place of the Nootka cannery, post office, telegraph station and general store there was now a modern cedar-and-glass lodge complete with a real rock fireplace that sent Ted into ecstasy, and a ring of private homes.
	www.islandnet.com /pwacvic/hancoc05.html (3163 words)

	Conuma Peak: The Matterhorn of Nootka Sound
		A high craggy spire of rock that is a conspicuous navigational feature in Nootka Sound for all types of boats: from the old wooden sailing vessels of the early navigators to the high-tec aluminum sport fishing boats to recreational sea-kayaks.
		Nootka Sound experienced a flurry of activity after Cook's visit as both the British and Spanish began vying for territorial supremacy over the new land.
		After the two countries almost came to war, the conflict was resolved by the Nootka Convention when both parties signed an agreement to the mutual abandonment of Nootka in 1794.
	members.shaw.ca /beyondnootka/articles/conuma.html (1770 words)

	Kayaking in Nootka Sound, BC west coast kayak tours.
		The Nootka proper are a small group on the west coast of Vancouver Island, but the name is also used to refer to the Aht Confederacy, which formerly included more than 20 tribes.
		Nootka Sound, inlet of the Pacific Ocean and natural harbor on the west coast of Vancouver Island lying between the mainland and Nootka Island.
		The Nootka Convention 1790 resolved the dispute and opened the North Pacific coast to British settlement.
	www.wildwoodadventures.ca /kayaking_nootka_sound.html (751 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Nootka Sound
		Nootka Sound is an inlet of the Pacific Ocean and a natural harbour on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.
		As a strait it separates Vancouver Island and Nootka Island.
		The third Nootka Convention resolved the dispute in 1794
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Nootka_Sound (342 words)

	Vancouver Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By the late 1700s, the primary Indian nations there were the Nuu-Chah-Nulth (Nootka) on the west coast, Salish on the south and east coasts, and the Kwakiutl in the centre of the island and the north.
		The island was further explored by Spain in 1789 by Esteban José Martínez, who built Fort San Miguel on one of Vancouver Island's small offshore islets in the Sound near Yuquot.
		The Spanish began seizing British ships and the two nations came close to war, but the issues were resolved peacefully in favour of the British with 1792 's Nootka Convention.
	www.usapedia.com /v/vancouver-island.html (483 words)

	BEYOND NOOTKA: A Historical Perspective of Vancouver Island Mountains
		Due to land claims on the west coast by both Spain and Britain, a war between the two almost broke out but was quelled by the signing of the Nootka Convention.
		The stories in BEYOND NOOTKA are not all full of "pitons" and "belays." The major themes of climbing have been covered - from its struggles and disappointments to its sense of camaraderie, triumph and humour.
		BEYOND NOOTKA has a complete bibliography, footnotes for those interested in further research, copies of some of the old explorers' maps dating back to 1792 and a lots of historical bandw photographs and colour photographs of modern climbers in action on the mountains of Vancouver Island.
	members.shaw.ca /beyondnootka (1031 words)

	Silicon Samsara -- Nootka Gets a New Body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nootka is the web and mail server for conifur.org, named after the convention's mascot.
		Nootka is currently a 3/50 with a third-party memory expansion board.
		As a 3/50, nootka cannot expand any further, and I don't have any spare 3/60 motherboards to slide into the case, so a whole-body transplant will be required.
	www.siliconsamsara.org /Nootka210 (529 words)

	George Vancouver - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An accommodation was arrived at, the Nootka Convention, and war was avoided.
		By the time the convention had been signed Roberts was no longer available to lead the expedition.
		Afterwards, Vancouver went to Nootka (on Vancouver Island), then the region's most important harbour, where he was to get any British buildings or lands returned by the Spanish.
	www.iridis.com /George_Vancouver (709 words)

	Nootka Island Trail
		Nootka Island, just north of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island's western shores, abounds with the earliest history of British Columbia.
		The ocean was calmer when we finally approached the mouth of Louie Bay, a sheltered bay at the north end of Nootka Island.
		Nootka Island's pristine wilderness-coast of immense white sand beaches and vast old growth forests of red cedar, Sitka spruce and hemlock has so far remained unlogged, despite having no formal protected area status.
	www.triumf.ca /people/gum/Nootka.html (4327 words)

	1889volumeIpage120-133
		That portion of the convention, therefore, which recognizes the colonial rights of Spain on the continents, though confirmed between great Britain and Spain by the first additional article of the treaty of 5th of July, 1814, has been extinguished by the fact of the independence of the South American nations and of Mexico.
		The first convention was for ten years; and I say it was not intended by the parties to be permanent.
		I say that if Great Britain was entitled to make settlements by the treaty of Nootka Sound, in 1790, she has forfeited and abandoned that right by the omission of the word in the conventions of 1818 and 1827.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/or/county/union1/1889vol1/1889volumeIpage120-133.htm (5095 words)

	WaveLength Paddling Magazine - August-September 2001 Issue
		Our aim was to scout itineraries for future kayaking trips, using Tim and Sandy Cyr's Nootka Island Lodge as an accommodation base, and the lodge's aluminum mothership for transportation between Gold River and Nootka.
		In 1792, Captains Vancouver and Quadra patched things up between England and Spain in England's favour (the Nootka Convention), and in 1795, the Spaniards abandoned their buildings and gardens, which were soon taken over by Chief Maquinna when he returned from his winter village at Tahsis.
		The animals gradually expanded their range to Nootka Sound and now can be found throughout the length of Vancouver Island.
	www.wavelengthmagazine.com /2001/asnootka.php (2473 words)

	The Northwest Coast in World Diplomacy, 1790-1846
		To conduct its delicate negotiations at Nootka, which were required to fulfill the terms of the Nootka Convention, Spanish officials in Mexico City chose the able Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra.
		In the Convention of 1818 the two contestants agreed to leave the region west of the mountains equally and freely accessible for a period of ten years to the vessels and citizens of either nation without prejudice to their respective claims.2'
		As if to eliminate every possibility of an early Oregon settlement, a convention of delegates from six western states gathered in Cincinnati in early July 1843, and there proclaimed that the rights of the United States to all the territory between 49° and 54°40' was clear and unquestionable.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG02/barnes/grandcoulee/graebner.html (6841 words)

	Nootka Sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When the British threatened to retaliate, the Spanish agreed to accept the terms of the Nootka Convention in 1790.
		Both nations were permitted to use the harbor at Nootka, but neither was allowed to establish a permanent settlement there.
		The chart reproduced on the stamp is dated 1791, and appears to be Spanish, though it is not specifically identified.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/nootka.htm (170 words)

	CSPN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nootka Controversy begins: Spanish Captain José Martínez imprisons English Captain James Colnett for trespassing in Spanish waters.
		Nootka Convention takes place in Europe in an attempt to resolve controversy: Spanish agree to surrender land purchased by Meares.
		Final resolution of the Nootka Controversy: the Spanish hand over their fort at Nootka to the English, but Nootka Sound becomes a free port, open to ships from all nations.
	www.washington.edu /uwired/outreach/cspn/curcont/timeline.html (439 words)

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		Hiking the Nootka Island Trail, August 7-12, 1999 By Peter Gumplinger A bit of history Nootka Island, just north of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island’s western shores, abounds with the earliest history of British Columbia.
		Wolves on Nootka Island are supposedly much smaller than on Vancouver Island or up North.
		References: [1] White Slave of the Nootka, by John Rogers Jewitt, ISBN 0-919214-51-7.
	www.triumf.ca /people/gum/Nootka.txt (4346 words)

	Robin Inglis: Malaspina and Maquinna
		Because it was Nootka that Cook had publicized, the realm of Maquinna became the prime target for the first merchant traders who began to arrive as early as 1785.
		This secondary chief at Nootka continued to be a frequent visitor to the corvettes throughout their sojourn at Friendly Cove, as he sought to gain an advantage over Maquinna in attracting Spanish favour.
		Almost exactly eight months after the departure of the expedition from Nootka, Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra arrived at Yuquot on April 27th, 1792 to take charge of the Spanish establishment and to meet George Vancouver to settle, on the ground, the terms of the Nootka Convention.
	web.mala.bc.ca /black/amrc/Research/Papers/INGLIS2.HTM (5234 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 376, NORTHWEST BOUNDARY: Library of Economics and Liberty
		West of the Rocky mountains the whole territory was to be open, for ten years, to the vessels, citizens and subjects of both powers, without prejudice to the claims of either.
		By the convention of Aug. 6, 1827 (ratified by the United States, April 2, 1828), the joint occupation of the Oregon country by Great Britain and the United States was continued indefinitely, with the provision that either party might annul and abrogate it, on giving twelve months' notice to the other.
		—In this state of public feeling, the democratic national convention of 1844 declared for the "reoccupation of Oregon," on the ground that our title to the whole of it was clear and unquestionable.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy767.html (2173 words)

	Yuquot (Friendly Cove), British Columbia, Canada
		The Nootka Convention was held in nearby Tahsis in 1792 to resolve the dispute between Spain and Britain over trading rights with the people of Yuquot.
		The Nootka Lighthouse, built in 1911, is one of the few remaining manned lighthouses on the coast of British Columbia.
		Bligh Island Provincial Marine Park sits at the mouth of the Muchalat Inlet, to the east of Nootka Island, and encompasses the southern portion of Bligh Island and part of the Spanish Pilot Group of Islands.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /regions/towns?townID=4060 (1150 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Vancouver's Exploration of the North Pacific, 1791-1795
		Spain, despite having agreed to the Nootka Convention, was still unwilling to cede land to the British.
		It was at this stalemate that both agreed to let their respective nations decide the outcome, in the interim placing Vancouver in charge of Meares’ small tract of land as well as the buildings surrounding it.
		In Vancouver's case, he was sent to Nootka Sound for diplomatic purposes but in the end was unable do anything to solve the conflict between Britain and Spain.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=5708 (2322 words)

	CEC(Spring2000).htm
		Another purpose of the newsletter is to encourage communication and interaction between special education and art education teachers who often teach the same students.
		CEC's 77th annual convention was held at the Charlotte, NC Convention Center.
		Special Education Presentations at the 39th Annual NAEA Convention in Washington, DC A variety of visual arts presentations addressed problem behavior in the art room and adapting the art curriculum to meet the needs of students with vision and physical limitations.
	www.southernct.edu /~gerber/SEDarts/CEC(Spring2000).htm (4499 words)

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