Captain Arthur Hastings is a fictional character, the partner and best friend of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. He is first introduced in her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles and appears in many subsequent Poirot stories and novels, generally as the narrator.
Poirot meets Hastings almost immediately upon his arrival in England, and the two become life-long friends. Hastings, while being no great detective himself, serves Poirot in many ways. A former British Army officer in World War I, he is extremely brave and often used by Poirot for physical duties such as catching and subduing a criminal. Poirot likes to tease Hastings about being dim_witted at times, but he clearly enjoys the Captain's company. Before Hastings marries, the two men even share a flat.
Hastings represents the traditional English gentleman __ not too bright but absolutely fastidious, a throwback to the Victorian era who is always concerned about "fair play." He is chivalrous, as well, possessing a pronounced weakness for pretty women with auburn hair (a fact that gets him and Poirot into trouble more than once). He eventually marries one of the auburn_haired beauties, Dulcie Duveen. They meet in a story Murder on the Links. He moves to a ranch in Argentina, returning to visit Poirot periodically.
The arrival of ships captained by José María Narváez of Spain in 1791 and George Vancouver of Britain the following year, heralded great change for the lives of the First Nations.
However, both the island and the city (and its U.S. counterpart) are named after Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver of Great Britain, who explored the region in 1792.
There are several striking modern buildings in the downtown area, including the Vancouver Law Courts and surrounding plaza known as Robson Square (Arthur Erickson, architect) and the Vancouver Library Square (Moshe Safdie, architect), reminiscent of the Colosseum in Rome.
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