Pandora

Joseph Thomas HJoseph Thomas Heath. Memoris of Nisqually. Memoris of Nisqually., p. 56, 151. Barry M. Gough, The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast, p. 104-05.

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Pandora (brig)

In this year a hydrographic survey vessel, H.M. brig Pandora, Lieutenant James Wood, came north and started charting Esquimalt and Victoria harbours during the summer. It should be remembered that when Captain Vancouver in 1792 entered the Straits of Fuca he only made a running survey of the mainland according to Admiralty orders, and ignored the south and east coast of Vancouver's Island. The charts of Lieutenant Wood were dated 1848 and were published in London the same year, but the first sheets were probably not received by ships on the Station until 1849. Frederick Victor Longstaff, Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of Its Work and Its Defenses. Vancouver, B.C.: Clarke & Stuart Co. Ltd. 1942., p.11.

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