Vancouver

==Etymology==
The city takes its name from [[George Vancouver]], who explored the inner harbour of [[Burrard Inlet]] in 1792 and gave various places British names.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/vancouver_george_4E.html |title=Dictionary of Canadian Biography: George Vancouver |website=biography.ca |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203064456/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/vancouver_george_4E.html |archive-date=February 3, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The family name "Vancouver" itself originates from the Dutch "van Coevorden", denoting somebody from the city of [[Coevorden]], Netherlands. The explorer's ancestors came to England "from Coevorden", which is the origin of the name that eventually became "Vancouver".<ref>{{cite book |last=Davis |first=Chuck |author2=W. Kaye Lamb |title=Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopaedia |publisher=Linkman Press |year=1997 |location=Surrey, BC |pages=34–36 |isbn=978-1-896846-00-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Davis |first=Chuck |title=Coevorden |url=http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/archives_coevorden.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610231756/http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/archives_coevorden.htm |archive-date=June 10, 2011 |access-date=June 7, 2011 |work=The History of Metropolitan Vancouver}}</ref>

The indigenous [[Squamish people]] who reside in a region that encompasses southwestern British Columbia including this city gave the name {{lang|squ|K'emk'emeláy̓}} which means "place of many [[maple]] trees"; this was originally the name of a village inhabited by said people where a [[Hastings Mill|sawmill]] was established by [[Edward Stamp]] as part of the foundations to the British settlement later becoming part of Vancouver.<ref name="SquamishVillages">{{cite news |last1=Sterritt |first1=Angela |date=June 24, 2021 |title=Road signs along the Sea to Sky Highway offer insight into the history of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people |work=[[CBC News]] |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/signs-along-sea-sky-highway-highlight-s%E1%B8%B5wx-w%C3%BA7mesh-history-1.6075470 |url-status=live |access-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725042435/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/signs-along-sea-sky-highway-highlight-s%E1%B8%B5wx-w%C3%BA7mesh-history-1.6075470 |archive-date=July 25, 2021}}</ref>