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Coles A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89 at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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James Colnett, a veteran of James Cook’s second voyage to
North America, was an early participant in the maritime sea otter
trade. Between 1786 and 1789 his two-vessel expedition traversed the
Northwest Coast from Prince William Sound to Vancouver Island and
wintered on the Hawaiian Islands. Along the way, he and his crew had
some remarkable encounters with Native peoples of the Northwest Coast
and the Hawaiian Islands: they were the first Europeans to encounter
the Tsimshian and the southern Heiltsuk peoples as well as the first to
land on the southern Queen Charlotte Islands.
Colnett’s journal of this expedition is published here for the
first time. Editor Robert Galois provides extensive annotations, along
with an introductory essay addressing the geopolitical context of the
voyage and the intellectual background that shaped the writing of the
journal. Galois supplements Colnett’s writings with extracts from
a second journal -- also previously unpublished -- by Andrew Bracey
Taylor, third mate on one of the ships under Colnett’s command.
Also included are illustrations from Colnett’s journals and a
variety of maps, both contemporary and historical.
This fascinating and informative account offers a new understanding
of the early European presence in the Northwest and of Native responses
to these developments. It will interest historians, geographers, and
ethnographers of the Northwest Coast and beyond.
James Colnett, a veteran of James Cook’s second voyage to
North America, was an early participant in the maritime sea otter
trade. Between 1786 and 1789 his two-vessel expedition traversed the
Northwest Coast from Prince William Sound to Vancouver Island and
wintered on the Hawaiian Islands. Along the way, he and his crew had
some remarkable encounters with Native peoples of the Northwest Coast
and the Hawaiian Islands: they were the first Europeans to encounter
the Tsimshian and the southern Heiltsuk peoples as well as the first to
land on the southern Queen Charlotte Islands.
Colnett’s journal of this expedition is published here for the
first time. Editor Robert Galois provides extensive annotations, along
with an introductory essay addressing the geopolitical context of the
voyage and the intellectual background that shaped the writing of the
journal. Galois supplements Colnett’s writings with extracts from
a second journal -- also previously unpublished -- by Andrew Bracey
Taylor, third mate on one of the ships under Colnett’s command.
Also included are illustrations from Colnett’s journals and a
variety of maps, both contemporary and historical.
This fascinating and informative account offers a new understanding
of the early European presence in the Northwest and of Native responses
to these developments. It will interest historians, geographers, and
ethnographers of the Northwest Coast and beyond.
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