Talk:George Vancouver

message: I removed the line "Puget Sound was named after Vancouvers good friend peter Puget." by user:66.235.43.27. I'm sort of dubious, and thinking this is nonsense. Zhatt 17:49, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: if you glance at the wiki's for peter puget, and the puget sound they both say exactly that. 
   That it was named after peter puget. Vancouver named everything else around here, why would 
   the second most dominant water feature in the state be any different? I dont want to edit 
   the page, but someone should put that line back in I think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.153.94 (talk) 23:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I found plenty of documentation that the sound was indeed named after Puget; see books by Wing & Nash. Curiously, it was only the southern part of the Sound that Vancouver intended, but the name grew to include Admiralty Inlet et cetera. Whether it is proper to call Vancouver & Puget "friends" is hard to say, since they were Captain and Lieutenant, but they seemed to be on good terms and remained so after their five-year mission together ended; when Vancouver died untimely, Puget helped his brother complete his journal. rewinn 07:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Line 

message: I reverted some comments about the orgins of Vancouver's name. They repeated a link to a web site that is already listed under external links. The tone of the commentary was far from NPOV. Nesbit 03:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of name 

message: Image of George Vancouver in the National Portrait Gallery in London only states "Probably George Vancouver by unknown artist".
Issue has been widely reported in newsmedia.
* Mystery Man
* Stamp image
NevilleDNZ 22:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Probable Portrait 

message: This version has a paragraph in the early career section:Vancouver was the first European to enter Burrard Inlet (beyond Stanley Park), the main harbour area of the present day City of Vancouver. This was on June 13, 1792. He named it after his friend Sir Harry Burrard. He surveyed Howe Sound and Jervis Inlet over the next nine days, befor command and Whidbey as sailing master. A new vessel was purchased for this expedition and named HMS Discovery after Cook's ship.
Which of course makes no sense ('befor command and Whidbey)
This earlier version   has some of the para in the Early career section and some further down in the 3rd para of the 91-95 expeditions section. Can someone who knows more about the subject please fix the current version? Thanks. dougweller (talk) 13:21, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with the text 

message: There are different dates of death floating around among local Wikipedia versions: May 10 (eg. dewiki) and May 12 (here). Encyclopedia Britannica and NNDB confirm the 10th of May. If nobody objects within the next few days or beats me to it I will apply changes to all related pages. --Stargaming (talk) 06:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Applied. Local Wikipedia versions still diverge slightly, needs to propagate. --Stargaming (talk) 11:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of death 

message: Whoever wrote the article failed to identify who Roberts and Whidbey are.
Roberts and Vancouver joined Britain's more warlike vessels. Vancouver went with Whidbey to HMS Courageux.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by MissingNO123 (talk • contribs) 23:29, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Career 

message: The Captain's involvement in introducing cattle to Hawaii deserves mention, as well as his other contributions to the islands' development of a commercial economy. These are freely discussed (as I recall) by Mark Twain in "Following the Equator". For many years, Hawaii led the US in beef production.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.213.150.140 (talk) 16:59, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hawaii, Vancouver 

message: The discussion of Vancouver's failure to discover the Columbia River is at odds with the claim that "he sent Lieutenant William Robert Broughton" to ascend it by boat. --Smack (talk) 14:01, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It did point out that Vancouver acquired Robert Gray's chart of the lower Columbia--while at Nootka Sound--and then sent Broughton to survey the river. I added a bit more about this, with a source, to make it more clear. Pfly (talk) 09:51, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW the relevant region may have been fog-bound when Vancouver passed by. If he had a schedule to keep he would not have been able to wait for the fog to clear, which, being unfamiliar with the area, for all he knew, may have taken days.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.150.18.173 (talk) 11:18, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Columbia River 

message: made 2009-05-14T11:13:23 with no reason or source supplied change the subject's date of death from 12 May to 10 May. It has stayed at that date since. , ,  and  all support 12 May only  claims 10 May. It should be referenced. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:52, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of death 

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message: Captain George Vancouver is awesome and you can learn about him whenever you want.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicoley10 (talk • contribs) 21:29, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Facts about George Vancouver  

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