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Goerge Vancouver was financed by the British Navy. the British payed for his explorations

Vancouver is located on the main land BC. The island was named after the explorer George Vancouver who was on Cook's last expedition.

The British Navy sent Vancouver on his expedition. It would have been paid for by the British government.

Captain George Vancouver originally reached Vancouver Island in 1776 as master of the Endeavor, one of three ships commanded by Captain James Cook on his explorations of the Pacific Ocean. Vancouver returned to Vancouver Island as captain of the Discovery in 1788, on a mapping expedition of the coastline north of the Columbia River delta.