How the discovery of a 460-year-old English shilling in B.C. could help rewrite the early history of Canada
The discovery of a 16th-century coin buried in clay on a Vancouver Island shoreline is rekindling interest in a controversial theory that English explorer Sir Francis Drake made a secret voyage to Canada’s Pacific Coast in 1579 — two centuries before Spanish sailors and the legendary British navigator Capt. James Cook made their famous “first” European visits to the future British Columbia in the 1770s.
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