Event type: In-person
Timing: The lecture starts at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
Location: Rotary Gallery of the Courtenay and District Museum
Speakers: Local popular historian Kim Davies
Tickets: $5 for Historical Society members; $6 for general public. Advance tickets recommended. Tickets can be purchased over the phone by calling 250-334-0686 ext 2.

A short discussion illustrated by the work of three well known maritime artists and an exquisite new model of the Spanish schooner, Santa Saturnina.

The threat of “foreign” invasion into “their” seas in the wake of the tumultuous fur trade prompted Spain to explore in Northwest Pacific waters, at the farthest reaches of their American empire, from 1774 until 1796. As UBC professor Tomas Bartroli noted, it was a brief presence, abandoned after 1795 with the conclusion of the Nootka Convention agreements.