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Postmedia News: Canada’s Francis Drake connection being overshadowed, author says

Mar 23, 2012

With the U.S. government poised to declare a Northern California bay the “official” 1579 landing site of the famous English explorer Sir Francis Drake — who is known to have anchored and repaired the Golden Hind that year somewhere along the U.S. Pacific Coast during his epic circumnavigation of the globe — the question arises: is Canada missing the boat on a landmark moment in world history?

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