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Galiano is so different from the mainland that visiting it is an educational experience. Whilst you are kayaking in our westcoast waters, your children could be enrolled in the summer school, having fun with varied activities (based at the Elementary School). We boast a renowned film school which may attract you to one of its courses. The staff at Montague Harbour Provincial Marine Park provide evening lectures during the summer season for campers and visitors, including a floating house"\ designed for viewing marine life. A small cottage at the Lions Park is open to the public, and furnished in style of 50 years ago. There is also an art-museum at Sturdies Bay dedicated to preserving the work of Galiano artists over the years. The Crystal Mountain Buddhist retreat also sometimes offers courses open to the public.
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Dionisio Alcalá Galiano (1762-1805), was a native of Cabra (Córdoba) and an officer of the [Spanish] Royal Navy.  In 1784 he began to work in the service of Vicente Tofiño, and the following year participated in the expedition of Antonio de Córdoba to the Strait of Magellan, aboard the  frigate Santa María de la Cabeza. 

In 1788 he was still with Tofiño, occupied on the cartography of the Azores, and in 1789 he set sail for America with the Malaspina Expedition, for the duration of which he was engaged in hydrographic, cartographic and astronomical work.  In 1792, together with his colleague Cayetano Valdés, aboard the schooners Sutíl and Mexicana, he made a voyage into Vancouver Strait, in search of the Northwest Passage described by Juan de Fuca. 
After returning home, he wrote an account in which he proved the nonexistence of the Passage.  In Spain, from 1794, he proposed that he develop a topographical atlas of the peninsula, but this project - as also the publication of the accounts of the Expedition - did not come to fruition because of the suspicions which the fall of Malaspina brought, by association, on his most faithful collaborators.  There is no doubt that Alcalá Galiano was a good friend of Malaspina. The officer perished in the battle of Trafalgar, in command of the vessel Bahama.

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