Natives and the Maritime Fur Trade
The Launch of the North West America at Nootka Sound, 1788 -- Sketch by C. Metz.
The construction of the North West America at Nootka Sound, represented the permanance of the British presence there. Note the Union Jack flying over the building at right.
From John Meares, Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789. London, 1790. Atlas, Plate 25. Sketch by C. Mtez. (Courtesy Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries.)