In 1791, Captain Vancouver and Third Lieutenant Joseph Baker, along with other officers and crew, set sail from Falmouth Harbour in England, for a 5 year journey to find the North West Passage.

This Coast Salish family story weaves together primary source narratives, personal recollections, knowledge keeper voices, and new revelations. It shows how and why Vancouver's journals were suppressed when he returned to England. The journal descriptions of the high level relationships and alliances with the Indigenous people they were meeting were redacted and kept from later historical materials which then informed educational textbooks. This is a re-interpretation of the story of those times, through an Indigenous lens. Baker and Tasi's research into primary archives and oral knowledge around the world is a significant contribution to reconciliation, and correcting an injustice.

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