This is your last chance to see the Cook and Canada Exhibition in Whitby.

You only have until 31 October 2009 to see this summer excellent exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire. It is called: Cook and CANADA, a reputation in the making.

Exactly 250 years ago, James Cook was charting the deadly shoals and eddies of the St Lawrence River. Under General Wolfe, British troops scaled the river cliffs at night and captured the French fortress of Quebec. We explore what Cook learnt, his charting of the tortuous coastlines of Newfoundland, and why he was chosen to lead the Endeavour voyage of exploration. With some of his earliest original charts and loans from major museums, the exhibition covers Cook's work on Canada's east cost, and provides a postscript with his west coast visit eleven years later.