VANCOUVER — Another human foot may have washed ashore in B.C., this time just off Vancouver.

Police say someone walking near the Maritime Museum on English Bay on Thursday found a boot containing what appears to be human bones.

The area was closed off and the BC Coroners Service was called in.

Nine other feet have washed ashore in B.C. since 2007 -- the last in a fresh water lake in Port Moody last November -- and the coroner's service has managed to find identities for six of them.

In previous cases, police and the coroner's service have said the feet apparently separated naturally from bodies in the water without any foul play.

Some severed feet have also been found in Washington state in recent years.