A view of Burrard Inlet in November from the beach at Spanish Banks in Vancouver. The Spanish Banks were named in commemoration of the meeting of the English under George Vancouver and the Spanish under Galiano and Valdés in June 1792. While Vancouver’s maps do not show the bank, Galiano’s charts of 1792 and 1795 do. The Hudson’s Bay Company came to call the area Spanish Banks for these reasons. The name was bestowed upon them by Captain Richards of HMS Plumper during his survey of Burrard Inlet in 1859.
