Spanish Banks Beach
Sandy tidal beach where rival empires' explorers once traded charts instead of cannon fire.
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This guide to Spanish Banks Beach in Vancouver returns to June 1792, when a British survey ship under Captain George Vancouver met two Spanish schooners off this shore, each empire racing to claim the coastline first. It follows the unlikely days the crews spent sailing together, trading charts and correcting each other's soundings under the watch of local Indigenous nations. Best heard walking the tide flats at low water, where those old soundings were taken.
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