Dee Longenbaugh - Independent Researcher, Juneau, Alaska, Speaking on Captain Vancouver's expedition to Alaska

Vancouver was sent to South east Alaska to see if there might be the famous Northwest passage, in this case of course it would be the other side but because Cook had sailed right past the true believers in England could not believe it didn't exist so they had sent Vancouver to explore the islands off the mainland, he was to go off the mainland off to the seaward islands and that would determine whether there was or wasn't the passage, but Vancouver was a perfectionist so instead of simply exploring the coastline and going far enough out to show those were islands he explored the entire islands, and of course the people he encountered, and this would be from today's Canadian border, at that time it was marked by the Haida's of the Queen Charlotte's and up as far as Sgan gwaii canal, most of south eastern Alaska, he sailed past glacier bay because there wasn't any yet, the ice was still there and choked most of the coastline.