One thing that I think is really interesting is that within, what, 70 years of their discovery, the San Juans had already been broken up into their current multi-ethnic naming conventions - a combination of the original Spanish voyage circa 1791 (San Juan, Orcas, Lopez, etc) and the subsequent English exploration undertaken by Vancouver and co in 1792 (Shaw, Sinclair, Blakely, etc) with one or two native names maintained (have always wondered how Lummi Island managed to hold on to a Salish name considering how large it is - only one up here other than Samish Island, which is essentially a peninsula, at least as far as I know)
TheEmperorsNewHose t1_jat2t6w wrote
Reply to Western Washington territory, 1857 by BoazCorey
One thing that I think is really interesting is that within, what, 70 years of their discovery, the San Juans had already been broken up into their current multi-ethnic naming conventions - a combination of the original Spanish voyage circa 1791 (San Juan, Orcas, Lopez, etc) and the subsequent English exploration undertaken by Vancouver and co in 1792 (Shaw, Sinclair, Blakely, etc) with one or two native names maintained (have always wondered how Lummi Island managed to hold on to a Salish name considering how large it is - only one up here other than Samish Island, which is essentially a peninsula, at least as far as I know)