Puget Sound History and Cartography (1891)

Puget Sound history and cartography is explored and examined from this vintage map that was originally produced in 1891. In the video we zoom in and look at various historical aspects that make this map so great.

In the video we also give a brief background to the history of the area which includes information about: Lt. Peter Puget, George Vancouver expeditions and explorations, The Hudson Bay Company, fur trading and Native American terminologies for the area.

[AllanBogh]

Nisqually is pronounce ˌnɪsˈkwɔːliː, or nis-qwah-lee, where qwah is longer, sounding much like the word Squall as @fuchoffanddye points out.

The Straight of Juan de Fuca is pronounced "won day few kah".

Mt. Shuksan is 9, 131′, the first ascent was in 1906.

Another tough one is Puyallup, it's pronounces Pew-all-up.

The Silver Creek mine did in fact produce gold, but it was a lode gold mine, meaning most of the gold was contained in rocks not pure gold nuggets.

[BlackShogun]

I'm using you're video for my adult education class for Washington History.

This is the Last class to take before I can get my High School Diploma.

So thinks for the Video, I need all the help I can get.

What do you think about Puget or Whulge being very polluted?
Have we done enough to fix it ?

[caseygleason]

A link to a map made as a result of the Vancouver expedition below. Peter Puget mapped the lower sound in one of Discovery's launches. You'll note that "Puget's Sound" was initially only supposed to be defined as the waterways to the south of "The Narrows", where today's Narrows Bridge crosses, and everything north was supposed to be called Admiralty Inlet. Nowadays the whole thing is called Puget Sound and Admiralty Inlet is limited to the body of water between Whidbey Island and the western peninsulas. Many things were named by Vancouver, including Mt. Rainier after Admiral Rainier, who fought against the U.S. in the Revolutionary War. I predict in the future Rainier, like Denali, will become known by the native name of Tahoma. That'll be fine by me. Who needs one of America's greatest landmarks named after an enemy combatant? Anyhow, one of my favorite parts of this map is a portion in the southern end of the central peninsula, just above the word "Sound" that looks like the head of a devil. My family settled this area and it bears no resemblance to a devil to look at, but it retains the name Devil's Head to this day because of Peter Puget's cartography.

[tuckersmoak]

hearing people not from the area pronounce our local terms is pretty cringe.

[TechsHelpingHand]

We have a lot of natives here in Washington. Not very many Indians

[MillerSean]

Anyone interested in this should pick up a copy of "Maritime Place Names: Inland Washington Waters" by Richard Blumenthal.

[briane]

It's pronounced "nis-KWAH-LY"

[fuchoffanddye]

It's Nisqually said like a storm at sea, a squall.

[HaysiKing]

Do a vid on the battle of Kings mountain

[kdlxl]

Shuksan is not Indian, but is derived from the Lummi word [šéqsən], said to mean "high peak". At least according to Wikipedia. I just learned more from 10 seconds of Googling than I did from this video.

[RuneCarverLLC]

@3:43 We also have other names for the area like...
Never Stops Raining
Ice Cold Rain
Swamps Everywhere
Too Many White People
You will Get Stuck
Too Many "Mosquitoes" [flies]
No More Fish
.... and a few that youtube might find questionable! 💁💁💁

[bhlutube]

I could really do without the "window within a window" narration. It doesn't add anything, and it's distracting. Also please check all of your pronunciations.

[JasonReitsch]

TONS of minor inaccuracies and mispronunciations packed into just ten minutes! :P

[VenoMooseBear]

FYI, Nisqually is pronounced, NISK-WALL-EE.

[mi]

Dude, at least get the pronunciation down before you make a video about it! Lol.. not easy city names.