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<b>April 25, 2015, Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC</b></h4>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-41319582578319653482015-04-14T14:10:00.001-07:002015-04-14T14:10:13.982-07:00Bronze statue is B.C. native sculptor’s tribute to his great-great-grandfather<a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Bronze+statue+native+sculptor+tribute+great+great+grandfather/8379484/story.html">Bronze statue is B.C. native sculptor&#8217;s tribute to his great-great-grandfather</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-54952878587236905342015-04-14T14:05:00.000-07:002015-05-04T14:07:32.258-07:00<br />
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<span class="fsl"><b><u> APRIL 25, 2015</u><u>, 2.00pm, STANLEY PARK at Brockton Point</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="fsl">The unveiling and inauguration ceremony for the Shore to Shore monument of Portuguese Joe Silvey and his two Coast Salish wives (Pkultinat, granddaughter of great chief Kiapilano (she died around 1867 in Stanley park where they lived, later their house and their neighbours' houses were razed and occupants displaced by the City of Vancouver in the 1920's), and Kwattleemat who delivered 10 children mostly on Reid island, near Galiano) </span><br />
<span class="fsl">will be at 2pm on April 25, 2015*. </span><br />
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<span class="fsl"><span class="fsl"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*(On April 25, 1974, a group of radical
army captains overthrew the fascist regime of Portugal which had been in
power over 40 years. The event became known as the Carnation revolution
because the soldiers' guns had carnations in the barrels, not bullets.)</span></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-56512415024253257912012-10-30T16:26:00.001-07:002012-11-03T12:38:14.756-07:00BROCKTON POINT 1906, Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC:
PORTUGUESE JOE SILVEY'S HOUSE AND OTHERS.<br />
Home of Portuguese pioneers Portuguese Joe Silvey (Portuguese Joe No. 1), Gregorio Fernandes, (aka Joe Fernandez (Portuguese Joe No. 2), Joe Gonçalves (aka Portuguese Joe No. 3, Gonzalves, Gonzales-later of Madeira Park), Peter Smith (Portuguese Pete, aka Pete the Whaler) and their aboriginal families (Fernandes, aka
Fernandez, the first
coffee roaster in BC never married). Smith may have been Da Costa.<br />
Peter Smith's daughter and perhaps his wife is buried at Brockton Point which is an an<br />
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cient aboriginal cemetery. It also contains the remains of Chinese pioneers and Kanaka natives.<br />
By 1874 Joe Silvey had given his house to Joe Goncalves and Tomkins Brew was living in Fernandes' house.<br />
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Painting by Edgar Bloomfield, 1906, Vancouver City archives collectionUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-70791076148273451702012-10-17T17:03:00.000-07:002012-11-03T11:06:25.911-07:00Brockton Point 1886, Stanley Park<br />
- Birthplace Of Elizabeth Silvey (circa 1864), first child of European heritage born in Vancouver. She helped her father, Portuguese Joe Silvey build a boat, the Morning Star at Brockton Point. She told the City archivist in the 1930's, Major Matthews, that she remembered as a young child holding one end of boards for her father to saw. Later , Portuguese Joe used the Morning Star to catch "dog" fish, a member of the shark family. One year he made a fortune, 2 thousand dollars, selling the oil from dog fish livers to loggers who used it to skid logs down to the water. <br />
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The Portuguese In British Columbia... and Canada</h2>
<em>by mlopesazevedo</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.lusitania.ca/pbs/portuguesebc.html">http://www.lusitania.ca/pbs/portuguesebc.html</a><br />
(present version is slightly altered)<br />
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Portuguese people have been coming to Canada for centuries. In 2003 Canada Post issued a commemorative stamp celebrating the 300th anniversary of Canada's first letter carrier, Pedro da Silva, likely a Portuguese New Christian who arrived in New France via La Rochelle, a popular French destination for secret Jews fleeing the Portuguese Inquisition.<br />
It is well known that Portuguese sailors have fished off the Grand Banks since the 15th century. They called it "Terra Nova". Portugal Cove in Newfoundland is ostensibly the place where the Portuguese explorers, the Corte Real brothers from the Azores buried two men. Some historians assert that they visited Canada in the early 1400's, before Cartier and some even go so far as to say that the very name Canada is derived from the Portuguese "canada", (a narrow trail) which divided the land in the upper St. Lawrence between the Portuguese and New France. Apart from Portuguese Cove in Nova Scotia, this writer is unaware of any other Portuguese place names on the east coast. <br />
Although the majority of present day Portuguese Canadians derive from post 1950's immigration, as professor Jean Barman's book, The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey (Harbour Publishing, 2004), shows, there was a small community of Portuguese pioneers in British Columbia before Confederation. This group of virtually unknown early pioneers were mostly ex-whalers who deserted the ships of the Pacific whaling fleet for the California gold rush of 1849 and subsequently the British Columbia Fraser river gold rush of 1858 and later the Cariboo in 1860. They generally married Aboriginal women and had large families. They left small footprints but big shoes in the history of British Columbia, albeit the full story is yet to be told.<br />
There are a few geographical names on the west coast derived from Portuguese pioneers. There are none named after the most famous of those pioneers, Portuguese Joe Silvey who married Khaltinaht, Chief Kiapilano's granddaughter. A contemporary of Gassy Jack, he built the first non-aboriginal house in Stanley Park, ran a saloon in Gastown and in 1868 attempted to lease 20 acres at Brockton Point. He died on Reid Island where a second family of 10 children was raised following the death of his first wife. <br />
Two other pioneers have left their mark on the geography of British Columbia. Silva Bay on Gabriola Island is named after John Silva who came to B.C. in 1859, likely from the Azores although Cape Verde is sometimes mentioned. In 1863 he operated a fruit and vegetable store at 27 John Street in Victoria. In 1873 he and his wife, "Louisa", daughter of a Cowichan Indian chief, purchased 237 acres on Maine Island. He started BC’s first apple orchard there. The couple had ten children but when two of their children drowned in Plumper Pass, they moved to Gabriola Island. Three of their children served in the First World War, one was killed and one badly injured. On Gabriola, the family donated land for the Catholic Church and a public school. John died in 1929. Although some family members claim his real name was Jacques Almeida, born in Lisbon, the 1881 census states the Azores as his birthplace. <br />
Enos Lake and Enos Creek in Nannose Bay are named after the first European settler there, John Enos (Joao Ignacio), a native of the island of Santa Maria in the Azores. He settled there in 1862 after seeking his fortune in the gold rush. He almost drowned at Yale in 1859, when his raft overturned. In 1890 he sold his farm and returned to the Azores, the only one of the pioneers to do so. However, he returned two years later after being rejected by his childhood sweetheart. He retired in 1894 to a ward in St Joseph's Hospital in Victoria but did not die until 1921 at the age of 87. He rode his bicycle around Victoria and played the guitar for the nuns of St. Ann's who looked after him. <br />
Saltspring Island has two roads named after early Portuguese pioneers, Bittancourt and Norton Roads. The Bittancourt brothers, Estalon and Manuel Antonio probably arrived on the island in 1859 from the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores. Although Manuel vanished after 1881, Estalon went on to become a prosperous and prominent resident with large real estate holdings and powerful friend in the Legislature. <br />
He built the Vesuvius Bay Lodge and operated a store and post office there. The hotel burned down in 1975. He also mined coal and operated extensive quarries which supplied stone to the legislative buildings in Victoria, churches, the inner harbour and dry docks in Victoria and Esquimalt and the San Francisco mint.. Today, the Bittancourt museum is named after this industrious pioneer. <br />
The Norton brothers, John and Delarvo left the island of Flores, Azores at a very young age and were "adopted" by a whaling captain named Norton in Boston Massachusetts. They settled in Saltspring in 1858 or 1859. In 1903 John Norton established the Northwest Creamery which became the leading dairy in Victoria until its sale in the 1990s.<br />
Many other Portuguese pioneers contributed to the building of British Columbia. Joe Goncalves who arrived in Gastown in 1874 to look after his uncle Gregory Fernandes, the first storekeeper in Vancouver, eventually settled in Madeira Park, which is named after him although he lived many years in Stanley Park with other Portuguese pioneers like Peter Smith (aka Portuguese Pete), one of the founders of the whaling industry in B.C. Their children married and died in Stanley Park until being evicted by the City of Vancouver in a court case that went all the way to Supreme Court of Canada which, in the author's opinion, rendered an unjust decision against the settlers.<br />
The earliest Portuguese presence in B.C. dates to the fur trading wars of the Spanish and English, which almost led to war between Spain and England, but diplomacy led to captain Vancouver's voyage of 1792 to settle the terms of peace. In 1787 and 1788 Captain John Meares, a retired British naval officer turned fur trade merchant brought a ship named Iphigenia Nubian from the Portuguese colony of Macao where his partner, Joao Carvalho had outfitted her with a Portuguese flag and Portuguese co-captain, Dom Francisco Viana, a native of Lisbon and some officers. The ships sailing papers were in Portuguese. The Spanish captured the ship at Nootka but later released her. She was still on the coast in 1792, for Captain Vancouver makes reference that a Portuguese ship was in distress in the Queen Charlotte Islands. <br />
On the east coast of Canada, one of the earliest interpreters between the Aboriginals and French was Mathieu Da Costa of whom very little is known. He was a linguist and interpreter who acted as Samuel Champlain's interpreter aboard the ship "Jonas" which sailed from La Rochelle in France to Acadia in 1606. He may have been born in the Azores. He had darker skin than his European employers and this has led to speculation that he may have been the offspring of a Portuguese father and an African mother - after all; there is a saying in Portuguese that God created the white person and the black person, but the Portuguese created the "mulato".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-81719324415239987622011-10-28T06:17:00.000-07:002011-10-28T06:29:58.441-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PORTUGUESE JOE SILVEY DENIED NATIONAL STATUS,</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(The Honouarble Peter Kent endorses decision)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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(harbourpublising.com)</div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Preface by Manuel Azevedo</span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is a Portuguese</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">saying that God is everywhere, but the Portuguese were there first. Accordingly, it should come as no surprise that Portuguese Joe Silvey was one of the earliest pioneers of what is now British Columbia. Joe Silvey was only one of many Portuguese who reached both the east and west coasts of Canada long before 1867, the year of Confederation (British Columbia joined in 1871). In fact, 2004 is the 300th anniversary of Canada’s first letter carrier, Pedro da Silva of New France, an occasion that has been honoured with the issue of a commemorative stamp by Canada Post.</span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Portuguese Joe Silvey sought his fortune in the gold rush of 1858 at a time when the non-aboriginal population of British Columbia exploded from about 1,000 to 20,000 or more in a matter of months. Victoria, a sleepy town of about 400 people, became a sprawling tent city overnight, filled with gold seekers from every corner of the world.</span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Although Joe was unlucky in his search for gold, he did find a beautiful wife in </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> unspoiled paradise that was Vancouver. In the first non-aboriginal marriage in Vancouver, he wed Khaltinaht, the granddaughter of the legendary chief, Kiapilano. The wedding took place at Musqueam, and the newlyweds set off in a canoe piled high with blankets to Point Roberts for their honeymoon. Later Joe returned to Gastown, where he opened a saloon at the corner of Abbott and Water streets, across the street from Gregorio Fernandez’s general store. He lived at Brockton Point, in what later became Stanley Park, with other pioneers: the legendary whaler Portuguese Pete (Peter Smith); Joe Gonsalves, aka Portuguese Joe No. 2; and Vancouver's first police officer, Tomkins Brew. All of them--except Fernandez, who remained a bachelor--married aboriginal women.</span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After the tragic death of his wife Khaltinaht, Joe Silvey found yet another beautiful wife, Kwahama Kwatleematt (Lucy) from Sechelt, and together they raised a dozen children on Reid Island off the northwest tip of Galiano Island. Joe worked hard to raise his family and protect them from the prejudices of the times. He fished for dogfish and herring, which he sold to loggers and visiting ships, he built boats and houses, he planted orchards, he operated a store, he established a school for his children and he entertained his family with the accordion and Portuguese dances. He never returned to his homeland, the island of Pico in the Azores, aka the Westerly Isles--Portuguese islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, more than 1,000 miles off the coast of Portugal on the same latitude as New York City.</span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Like his countrymen from the Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde islands, Joe established deep roots in British Columbia. These men, like other pioneers from every corner of the world, contributed to the building of BC. Joe practically founded the fishing industry and obtained the first herring seine licence in the province. His Brockton Point neighbour, the legendary Portuguese Pete, started the whaling industry; Joe Gonsalves of Madeira built the first deep-sea docks on the Sunshine Coast with the help of the “black” Azorean, Joe Perry; John Silva of Cape Verde, later of Gabriola Island, planted what may have been the province's first apple orchard on Mayne Island; John Enos (Ignacio) of the island of Santa Maria in the Azores, the first European settler at Nanoose Bay, helped build the bridges of Nanaimo. In Victoria, Joseph Morais owned and operated a hotel, restaurant and miners’ exchange in 1861. The Bitancourt and Norton brothers, from Sao Miguel and Flores Islands (Azores), respectively, developed dairies, coal mines and quarries on Salt Spring Island.</span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now, for the first time, the respected historian and professor Jean Barman gives us a very human glimpse of the life of one of these pioneer builders of British Columbia, Portuguese Joe Silvey. She traces his adventures, his fortunes and misfortunes through the stories told by his children and their descendants. In this very personal, heartwarming monograph, she brings one family to life, thereby providing us with a better understanding of the untold lives of hundreds of other early pioneers, whose contributions and sacrifices made British Columbia what it is today.</span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vancouver, 2004-03-18</span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-82135915153895576622011-10-25T15:52:00.001-07:002011-10-25T15:54:10.162-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"></span><br />
<ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>THE BITTANCOURTS AND THE NORTONS</b></span></ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Early Salt Spring home builders<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /><i>By Morton Stratton</i></ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Four very young Portugese youth <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />(two sets of brothers) were among the earliest settlers on Salt Spring Island, <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />arriving about 1860 just after Willis and Sylvia Stark, the Jones brothers and <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />other pioneer families. Estalon and Manuel Bittancourt established claims on the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />shores of Vesuvius Bay and the fertile land to the cast; John and Delarvo Norton <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />(the family name was adopted from the captain of the ship bringing them from <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Portugal) took up their claims on the gently rolling uplands between the present <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />golf course and Lady Minto Hospital. Manuel and Delarvo disappear from the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />record; but Estalon Bittancourt, Manuel's son, Reid and John Norton put their <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />roots down on the island, raised their huge families here, and erected some of <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />the substantial homes which graced central Salt Spring Island at the turn of the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />century. It is particularly unfortunate that three of the finest homes built by <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />the Bittancourts no longer exist (One demolished and two destroyed by fire) and <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />hence cannot be represented in the photographic exhibit of old homes scheduled <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />by the Canadian Arts Council for June 20 in Mahon Hall. But happily, several <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />others are still well preserved, as are two houses built by John <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Norton.</ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /><b>ROMANTIC </b><b>CAREER</b></ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></b>Estalon Bittancourt had a particularly romantic and interesting career. Born in the Azores about 1845 he developed a roving disposition and a longing to go to sea. At the age of about 15 or 16 he swam out to a sailing ship bound for the goldfields of Australia. </ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Soon after, the lure of the sea brought him to Vancouver Island. Refused shore <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />leave by his captain he waited until nightfall and swam ashore at Royal Roads. <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Purchasing a sloop, he did a good business for several months carrying sawdust <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />from Mill Bay to Victoria. Then disaster struck; a driving gale piled his frail <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />craft on the rocks at ten mile point just north of Cordova Bay; but fortunately <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />his ability as a swimmer saved him after a hard struggle with the swift running <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />current. Perhaps tiring of his adventures on the sea he took the advice of his <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />fellow countryman, John Norton, who already knew something of Salt Spring, and <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />established his land claims behind Vesuvius Bay. </ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />STORY OF THE FAMILY</b></ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></b>For a full generation, from the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />1860's until death in 1917, the story of Vesuvius is in a real way the story of <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />the Estalon married, raised a large family of nine children, became a <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />substantial businessman and farmer and developed the agreeable habit of building <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />substantial homes for himself and his family. The earliest and the finest, his <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />own home above the docks at Vesuvius, existed in its later days as the Vesuvius <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Bay (An annex was built in 1886 for son, Fred, and wife, Annie). This big house <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />was the centre of Estalon's enterprise. Hero he ran a general store (supplied by <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />a sloop with which he delivered goods to and from Victoria) and a friendly <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />little neighborhood pub (a decent enough establishment, but still off limits to <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />the strict Methodists at Central Settlement.) Later he developed the store into <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />the Vesuvius Bay Hotel. A major source of income for the growing Bittancourt <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />family came from the operation of the sandstone quarries at Vesuvius, originally <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />developed in 1860-61 by five partners who took of for the goldfields of the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Cariboo in 1861.</ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /><b>AT FULL STRENGTH</b><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />In the 1880's the sandstone quarry <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />was running at full strength and the family operated three sloops carrying stone <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />to Victoria and Esquimalt. The Esquimalt dry dock, the original causeway in <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />front of the Empress Hotel and several churches in Victoria were constructed of <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Vesuvius sandstone. Coal was also mined at the Bittancourt place; especially at <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />nearby Dock (now corrupted to Duck) Bay. Bea Hamilton tells us this coal <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />retailed for 25 cents a bag! Since the Vesuvius docks were the principal window <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />on the world for settlers north of the Divide, the Bittancourts were often the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />first to welcome newcomers to the island. One of the early priests working this <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />mission field, Father Kremera, was once flung from his canoe into the waters at <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Sansum Narrows. He made it to shore and staggered through the bush where he was <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />found by Bittancourt. Years later (1894) it was Bittancourt who greeted the Rev. <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />E.F. Wilson upon his first arrival at Salt Spring on a cold February morning and <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />directed him on his way to Mrs. Stevens; Boarding House. Meanwhile, over the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />years the Bittancourt land holdings were expanding (some of the acreage farmed <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />with the help of his son, Charlie) until at the time of Estalon's death in 1917 <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />at the age of 74 there were 437 acres registered in his name. <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /> <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /><b>FIVE HOUSES</b><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />The family home - turned hotel was <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />destroyed by fire on 1975 but five houses still attest to the prosperity of this <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />enterprising pioneer. Best known are the three "dowry houses" that ringed <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Vesuvius Bay (photo in Toynbee's Snapshots), built by Bittancourt for three of <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />his married daughters (one house has since been moved to the top of the hill <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />where the road descends to the bay). A house built across the road from the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />wharf for his son, Fred, about 1892 was recently moved to the Farmer's Institute <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />property on Rainbow Road and will serve the community as Salt Spring Island's <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />first museum after remodeling is "The Ark" the jewel of them all. The <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Bittancourt family was Catholic and had originally installed a chaplin in the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />attic of the old family home where once a month a Catholic priest attended to <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />celebrate mass. Later, Estalon built a small chapel up the road from son Fred's <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />home. This pretty little building, now a residence, still stands with a bell in <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />the gable, a fitting testimonial to the devout Catholic family whose legacy <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />lives on at Vesuvius Bay.</ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /><b>HIS NEPHEWS</b><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Equally well known to the next <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />generation on Salt Spring, including many now living were Estalon Bittancourt's <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />nephews, Reid and Arthur Bittancourt. After he moved here in the 1880's Reid's <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />life was intimately related to the development of the Ganges area. Arthur, on <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />the other hand, made his name in Alaska but he is remembered locally for the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />meticulous care with which he dismantled the Methodist chapel at Central board <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />by board and window by window and reassembled it on Hereford Avenue. Here the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />structure now stands as the street side portion of the Legion Hall. Complete <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />with a new roof, the operation cost $300. Arthur also did some exceptional <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />carpentry work in the early 20's in the home of Dick Toynee on Churchill Road. <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Abraham Reid Bittancourt was an outstanding carpenter and builder. (See Valerie <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Richards comment on his craftsmanship in a recent Driftwood). He apparently <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />developed his skills before moving to the island. In 1890 he worked with Mr. <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Herd of Somenoa in the construction of the T. W. Mouat house which still stands <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />on the ridge west of St. Mary Lake. </ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />BULLOCK MANSION</b><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Certainly the biggest commission <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />was building the impressive Henry Bullock mansion in 1892 for a contract price <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />of $2,000. Subsequently, he erected several houses in the village of Ganges; for <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />example, the home at the corner of Rainbow Road and Lower Ganges Road across <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />from the health office. But better known was the splendid home and store put up <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />in 1904 at the foot of Ganges Hill, known more recently as the Dr. Francis <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />nursing home (demolished in 1967). Reid's career as a storekeeper boat operator <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />and patrol officer for Canada Customs are beyond the scope of this article. In <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />concluding these comments on the Portugese pioneers, mention must be made of <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />John Norton (born Delavera). Like Reid Bittancourt, he raised a fine family on <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Salt Spring. His children were contemporaries and playmates of some of Salt <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Spring's older living residents (see Toynbee's school snapshots). John Norton <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />was a prosperous farmer in the area west and north of the present Valcourt <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Centre. </ul><ul style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /><b>ON NORTON </b><b>ROAD</b><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Here he constructed for his second <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />wife the family home which stands on the left up Norton Road and is now <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />surrounded by so many lovely flowers and overgrown shrubs. Incidentally, this <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />house, owned by a granddaughter of John Norton, is the only house in the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />Heritage House Committee's survey which is still in the hands of a descendant of <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />the builder. John Norton also built a house for A.J. Smith about 1903 which <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />stands on the left of Blain Road above Greenwoods, commanding a panoramic view <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />of Ganges Harbour. The Nortons and the Bittancourts, only recently so well known <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />on the island are gone now. But the houses they built stand as a tribute to the <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" />contribution they made to the growth and diversity of our fascinating island. <br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /> </ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-91763888988350421182011-08-31T21:23:00.000-07:002011-10-28T07:36:42.962-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Joseph Lewis</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>, the truly first Portuguese Joe No. 1</b></span></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>(</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Do Not</b></i></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>) “Hang and draw,</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And set in judgement after. "</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>(Henry Crease*, Lewis' lawyer</i>)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>The British Colonist, June 3, 1859, p.2</u><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">BARBAROUS MURDER-On or about Wednesday night, Johnston Cochrane, one of</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">the police was barbarously murdered on the road to Craig Flower, where the body</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">was discovered lying, having received two shots, one through the head and another,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">in the mouth. A colored man is suspected, whom the deceased was in search of, for</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">having stolen some pigs. Yesterday he was arrested some seven miles from this</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">town, towards Saanitch. His name is Joseph Lewis, alias Portuguese Joe, a native</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">of the Cape de Verde Islands. He will be examined this morning.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">On application of Sheriff Heaton, His Excellency, Gov. Douglas, has offered 100 (pounds)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">for the arrest and conviction of the murderer. We sincerely hope, that no effort or</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">expense will be spared in bringing the perpetrator of this awful crime to speedy justice.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">During the past year several murders have been committed, supposed to have been done by whitemen, but no conviction has resulted.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>June 6, 1859, p. 2</u></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
THE MURDER OF JOHNSON COCHRANE--</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The officers of justice have not yet succeeded</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">in obtaining necessary evidence of the complicity of</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">the colored man, “ Portuguese Joe”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">in this crime . He is still in prison and</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">we hear that every effort is being made to</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">arrest the perpetrator of the foul deed.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>June 13, 1859, p. 3</u></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>VICTORIA POLICE COURT</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>-----</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">BEFORE JUSTICE PEMBERTON</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">SATURDAY, June 11th</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Murdered Policeman, Cochrane--</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">A half-breed, Jollibeau, who resides</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">with his father on the farm of the late Dr. Kenedy,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">was very closely interrogated by justice</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Pemberton, to learn if he had any connection</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">with Joe Lewis, the party in prison.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">It appeared that he had been engaged in</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">the early part of the year, with two colored</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">men, in shooting game for the market. A double barreled</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">gun with one rifle, and one smooth bore, together with a revolver and,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">fowling-piece were produced in court ;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">he swore that they had not been out of his possession on</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">the supposed day of the murder, and also that he had very little knowledge of the accused. His sister, who seemed to know very little of the rules of court, and gave the Judge considerable trouble, failed to connect, in any way, the parties, but distinctly swore that she had never seen Lewis. Jollibeau was set at liberty. As yet there is no evidence to implicate any party. The officers are still in pursuit of the murderers. Lewis will be brought up again on Thursday.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>June 17, 1859, p.3</u></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><b>VICTORIA POLICE COURT</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>-----</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">BEFORE JUSTICE PEMBERTON</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">WEDNESDAY, 15</span><sup><span style="text-decoration: none;">th</span></sup><span style="text-decoration: none;"> June.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">ACQUITTAL: Joseph Lewis, charged with</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">being concerned in the murder of Policeman</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cochrane, was called up for final examination.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Crown Solicitor asked to remand him; but the prisoner's</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">counsel, Mr. Crease, objected. Officer Smith, being</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">sworn, testified that there was no prospect</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">of further evidence to show that the prisoner was</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">concerned in the murder. The court suggested</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">that the prisoner make a voluntary statement,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">warning him not to confess anything to convict himself.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lewis then stated that he had slept at Victoria</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Brewery, the night previous to the murder;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">that he started early to go to Porter's farm;</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Porter considered it too late to hunt up</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">cattle, so he returned to the Brewery; slept</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">there that night with a man named Wallace.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">He had no firearms; was by trade</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">a butcher; did not know the deceased; had</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">no idea of a warrant being out for his arrest</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">on a charge of stealing pigs; lived on</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Johnson street .</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Two witnesses were called, Mr. Wallace</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">and Mr. Steinberg; who corroborated his</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">statement.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Mr. Crease asked for his immediate</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">acquital.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Court questioned Lewis very closely</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">as to his mode of life; stated that he was</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">suspected of killing cattle and pigs,--and</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">warned him if he came before him, bonds</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">would be required for his good behavior.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Mr. Crease hoped his Worship would not</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“Hang and draw,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">And set in judgement after. "</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lewis was then discharged.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">ON SUSPICION--Francoise Presse</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">was arraigned on the charge of being concerned</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">in the murder of Johnson Cochrane; but</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">after a short examination, was remanded</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">till tomorrow.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="LEFT" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-style: normal; line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In 1858 Henry Crease was the first barrister qualified to practice as a Barrister of Her Majesty's Court of Civil Justice for Vancouver Island. He was later appointed Attorney General.</span></span></span></div><table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: right; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: -webkit-auto; width: 22em;"><tbody>
<tr><th class="n" colspan="2" style="font-size: 14px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span class="honorific-prefix" style="font-size: x-small;">Sir</span> <span class="fn">Henry Pering Pellew Crease</span></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HPPCrease.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="341" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/HPPCrease.gif/220px-HPPCrease.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; vertical-align: middle;" width="220" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Henry Pering Pellew Crease</td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_British_Columbia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Supreme Court of British Columbia">Supreme Court of British Columbia</a></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>In office</b></span><br />
May 13, 1870 – January 20, 1896</td></tr>
<tr><th style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Appointed by</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Musgrave" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Anthony Musgrave">Anthony Musgrave</a></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_British_Columbia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Attorney General of British Columbia">Attorney General of British Columbia</a></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>In office</b></span><br />
October 15, 1861 – May 13, 1870</td></tr>
<tr><th style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Appointed by</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas_(governor)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="James Douglas (governor)">James Douglas</a></td></tr>
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<h2 align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">From UBC</span></b></h2><h2 align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Fraser River Gold Rush (Timeline)</span></b></h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><a href="" name="Top" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #000099; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Appendix 1: Early British Columbia Political Timeline, Key Events</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="" name="Top" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #000099; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><table style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><tbody style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
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1842</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px;">Victoria selected for a Hudson's Bay Company post.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px;">19 Nov. 1858</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px;">Mainland (New Caledonia) became the "Colony of British Columbia" under Governor James Douglas <a href="http://www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/displays/EarlyBCnws/nwsReferences.htm#55" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #000099; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[55]</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px;">1868</td><td style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px;">Victoria becomes the provincial capital <a href="http://www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/displays/EarlyBCnws/nwsReferences.htm#57" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #000099; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[57]</a>.</td></tr>
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</tbody></table></a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-32226586915209252512011-08-28T11:27:00.000-07:002011-09-11T21:52:02.660-07:00<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Portuguese Pioneers of B. C. (PJ Silvey)</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">(adapted from Lusitania.ca, November 2003)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> PART I - <b>Who was Portuguese Joe Silvey? An Introduction</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Manuel Azevedo<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3EVMqVUhNRf8r7JbTvA_PY1Q5QNfWqATxv7LvXuQY9Bmw76jdzoz16nGSGFNhownDvW3vwEfJFG7XH_NP7MU3HUHkcTCDVrQq0J120vW9mckMZUIS_NPwXQ1mS7U7klxTVyclcWCQeENf/s1600/gastown+circa+1870.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3EVMqVUhNRf8r7JbTvA_PY1Q5QNfWqATxv7LvXuQY9Bmw76jdzoz16nGSGFNhownDvW3vwEfJFG7XH_NP7MU3HUHkcTCDVrQq0J120vW9mckMZUIS_NPwXQ1mS7U7klxTVyclcWCQeENf/s320/gastown+circa+1870.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>(Gastown, circa 1870. Water street between Carral and Abbott.</i><br />
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<i><u>PORTUGUESE CORNER (Water and Abbott streets)</u></i><br />
<i> Bottom right, at the north west corner of Water and Abott streets ( the building on stilt)s is Gregorio Fernandez's store. Gregory also owned the building directly cross the street, at the south-west corner, where he kept chickens and supplies.</i><br />
<i> Kitty corner from Fernandez's store, at the south-east corner was </i><i>Portuguese Joe Silvey's saloon, later known as the "Hole in the wall", today's Lamplighter pub at the Dominion hotel. Gassy Jack's saloon was at the othere end of the block, at Carral and Water street, at the far left. vancouver was one block long. (image courtesy Rocky Sampson)</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Joe Silvey is the best known of the handful of Portuguese founding pioneers to arrive in British Columbia prior to confederation (1867 – British Columbia joined Canada in 1871). He is about to become better known. Howard White, editor of the Raincoast Chronicles published by Harbour Publishing of Madeira Park, B.C., announced that the 20<sup>th</sup> Anniversary issue will be Professor Jean Barman’s, <u>The Remarkable Adventures of “Portuguese Joe” Silvey: A True Story of B.C.</u>, written for the Silvey family reunion held in Ladysmith, April 3, 1999. (<i>It since has become a best seller-ed</i>)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Who was Joe Silvey and where did he come from? According to family lore, Joe and five other Portuguese crewmembers of a whaling ship jumped ship to join the Cariboo Gold Rush of British Columbia in 1858. Although some descendants believe he jumped ship in 1849 in California or 1852 in Victoria, census records indicate he was in B.C. by 1860. Evidence at the Stanley Park settlers trial in 1923 suggests he was present for the gold rush of 1858.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Some of Joe’s friends such as Gregorio Fernandez of Gastown ( Vancouver's first store owner and coffee roaster), Peter Smith aka Portuguese Pete or Pete the Whaler, (the "half legendary" founder of the short lived whaling industry in B.C) also of Gastown, John Enos (Ignacio) of Nanoose Bay (the first European settler on the Nanoose peninsula - Enos creek is named after him), and Enos’ neighbour, John Suza (Souza), appear to have participated in the Fraser river gold rush of 1858-1860.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Other Portuguese pioneers such as the enterprising Bittancourt and Norton brothers of Saltspring Island, (after whom Bittancourt Road and Norton Road are named) John Silva of Victoria, later Mayne and Gabriola Island (after whom Silva Bay on Gabriola Island is named), also appear in British Columbia around 1860. Joe Gonsalves from Madeira, after whom Madeira Park is named, came to Gastown later, in 1874, to look after his ailing uncle, Gregorio Fernandez. Perhaps only Joseph Montero of Cape Verde arrived in the early 1850’s prior to the Gold Rush.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Whaling</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Although Portuguese began fishing for cod off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks in the fifteenth century, it was not until the nineteenth century that they reached the pacific coast, with some exceptions. American whaling ships headquartered in New New Bedford, Massachusetts had exhausted the Atlantic ocean by the mid nineteenth century, and began hunting whales in the Pacific ocean.<br />
The sperm whaling industry in the USA was established in part by Aaron Lopez (Duarte Lopez), a New Christian born in 1752 in Lisbon who fled the inquisition to America. He is one of the founding fathers of the Touro synagogue of Newport Rhode island, the oldest extant synagogue in the USA. He had 30 ships in his fleet, which he crewed with men from the Azores. These whalers were the first documented Azorean settlers in the United States. US immigration statistics indicate that 1,605 Portuguese officially immigrated between 1820 and 1860. A small number worked in the Pacific whaling fleet.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>California</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">When gold was discovered in California in 1849 many whaling ships were deserted by their crews, stricken by gold rush fever. San Francisco harbour once contained 900 abandoned ships at the height of the gold rush. Joe Silvey, who may have left the Azores in 1846 may have been one of those whalers who jumped ship. Perhaps the river boat pilot J.S. Silvey listed in the 1850 San Francisco City Directory at Clark's Point (at Montgomery and Sacramento streets) was Portuguese Joe Silvey. Silvey’s descendants recall visits to British Columbia by cousins from California and New Bedford, Massachusetts. Also, Joe Gonzalves, Gregorio Fernandez’ nephew from Madeira arrived in Gastown in 1874 via San Francisco where his uncle was listed in 1857 as a fruit dealer. By 1858, the year of B.C.’s Gold Rush, he was no longer listed in the San francisco directory.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>British Columbia</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">According to British Columbia government records of Joe’s second marriage to (Lucy) Kwat-lee-matt in 1872, Joe was 38 years old and born on Piepika Island, Portugal. His parents were John Silvy and Francisca Hyacinthia. Joe’s eldest daughter, Elizabeth, born in Stanley Park by Joe’s first wife, Khaal-tin-aht (Maryanne), granddaughter of the notable Chief Ki-ap-i-la-no, told the city archivist, Major Matthews, that her father was from “Pekapika, Azores Islands.”<br />
Joe may also have had an unknown Scottish grandfather. According to some, Joe’s grandfather was a Scottish seaman who helped the Portuguese expel the French Invaders during the Peninsular War of 1808. This, Joe’s descendants said, explained the reddish beards and blue eyes of the Silvey men. Major Matthews certainly gave credence to the story; he gave Joe a Scottish surname, Simmonds, perhaps a variation of Joseph Silvia Seamens, the name Joe gave on a formal document pre-empting land in 1872.<br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The Azores</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">There is no Pekapika island in the Azores, but Pico Island, named after the highest mountain in Portugal at 2,351 meters high (a sometimes grumbling volcano) is one of nine islands of the Azores, located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, 760 nautical miles from Lisbon and 2,111 from New York. These previously uninhabited islands of volcanic origin are sometimes referred to as the remains of the legendary Atlantis. Today's stock of Azoreans, spilled throughout the world, are descendants of Portuguese, Spanish, Italians, English, Flemish, French Scots, Germans, Slaves, Jews, Muslims and Christians.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The exact date of their discovery by Portuguese sailors is unknown but is generally attributed to Diogo de Silves in 1427 although the islands do appear in some fourteenth century maps. The Azores have played an important part in Portuguese history, serving as a strategic naval and military center. They served as a stop over for ships coming from India and later for ships from the Philippines during Spanish domination of Portugal between 1580 and 1640. They were often victims of pirate raids such as Sir Francis Drake.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><br />
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<b><img src="http://www.beaufortyachtsales.com/images/Nonstop-azores_Pico.jpg" /></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Pico was populated after the initial settlements on the Islands of Santa Maria (where Columbus stopped on his return from the Americas) and São Miguel in 1439. It is believed that the first settler and his dog disembarked on the southern end of the Island in 1460. Lajes became its first town and today the municipality of Lajes encompasses the village of Calheta de Nesquim, located at the tip of the elongated island. Calheta is one of the oldest ports on Pico and was the first base for hunting sperm whales (1876). Today, with a population of approximately 15,000 people, Pico is experiencing an economic boom fueled by Portugal’s entry into the European Community although whale hunting was prohibited in 1986.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">During Joe’s time, life on Pico was a constant struggle for survival, if not with the sea, then with the dark volcanic stone. Although Pico’s famous wine," verdelho", the product of herculean work on lava beds, had reached international fame all the way to the table of the Czars of Russia, an odium attack in the middle of the nineteenth century destroyed the vines. A stint on an American whaling ship looking for hard working crew members became a ticket to the promised land.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">On April 23, 1828 in the village of Calheta de Nesquim, in the municipality of Lajes, on the island of Pico, in the archipelago of the Azores, Portugal, a child was born, Jose, the legitimate son of John Jose de Simas and his wife Francisca Jacinta, paternal grandson of “pay incognito” (unknown father) and Maria do Espirito Santo, maternal grandson of Antonio Silveira Quaresma and his wife Maria Jacinta.<br />
Jose was baptized on April 28, 1828; the grandparents were, Father Jose Homem da Silveira, treasurer of the church, “Our Lady of Piedade” and godmother, Rosa Maria, daughter of Manuel Goncalves de Simas, all of Calheta de Nesquim.<br />
On the baptismal certificate, the date 1846 appears on the bottom, perhaps the date of Jose’s emigration at the age of 18.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">That child was most certainly Portuguese Joe Silvey of British Columbia. The names of the parents match the records of his marriage to Lucy in 1872. Like many other Europeans who married young Aboriginal women, Joe fudged his age when he married 14 year old "Lucy", he was not 37 but 44!<br />
The surname “Seamens” in a 1872-preemption land application by joe must be a transliteration of “Simas.” And the romantic story of a Scottish grandfather resonates with grandson of “pay incognito.”<br />
Jose came from a large family. His four sisters Maria Jacinta, Francisca Jacinta, Rosa Jacinta and Joaquina Inacia all died in Pico. However the place of death of his four brothers, Manuel, João, Antonio and Domingos (the name of Joe's eldest son and one of the founders' of the fishers union in B.C.) are unknown; perhaps they too left never to return to their native land.<br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><strong style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><i>Este registo pertence ao Livro nº4 - Nascimentos, da Freguesia da Calheta de Nesquim - Baptismos - 3-1-1825 a 14-5-1848, propriedade da Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Regional da Horta, Rua D. Pedro IV nº 25, 9901-825 Horta</i>.</strong></span><br />
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</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>San Francisco</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>City Directory</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>1850 </b></span></span></span></span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Silvey, J. S., pilot Sac and San Joaquin rivers, S. T. Saloon, Clark’s Point</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pilots</b></span></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>For the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> — W. A. Fauntleroy, W. Neal, H. Van Ness, W. Burges, L. Gamage, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">J. S. Silvey</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, H. Van Pelt, W. Sandezniss, E. Palmer, P. Howard, W. H. Joliff. Office under Hutton and Timmerman's, Clark's Point.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Pilots for the Outer Bar</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> — On board Pilot Boat Rialto — G. Simpson, R. Leitch, L. Coxelta, C. J. Wright, Chas. Richardson. On board Pilot Boat Relief — E. B. Jenkins, M. McDonald, Jas. Urie, C. J. Campbell, Robt. Sing, J. Ludlow. W. S. Burnside and James Nelson, Agents, office California b. Mont. and Sansome.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Harbor Master</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> — James Hagan, office, Commerical whf. Clark's Point. J. Carngan, secretary, Pilot Commissioner's office, Clark's Point.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Harbor Pilots</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> — John Delevean, John Ingram, Wm. Rogers, Mr. Hanson. Office at the Harbor Master's office.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Custom House</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> — corner of Cal. & Montgomery. James Collier, Collector. Open from 9 A. M. till 2 P. M. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1852/53 City Directory</b></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Silvy A.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> 123 Montgomery </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span> </div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Joe's brother Antonio?</span></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-77372955565641498232011-08-25T21:25:00.000-07:002011-09-21T08:09:14.153-07:00<h1 class="western" style="text-decoration: none;"><b>JOHN SILVA </b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">of Mayne and Gabriola Island</span></b></h1><h1 class="western" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Adapted from Lusitania.ca, June 2003, by M. Azevedo)</span></h1><h1 class="western" style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJboRhMo_uOF_JGFerARTsavYRr3hnnKcsz4QkKc_qhAwTBRA0Pg" /></h1><div>Silva Bay, Gabriola island</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">John Silva was born in Cape Verde (or the Azores) around 1837 (although the 1901 census indicates 1845). He died on Gabriola Island B.C. in 1929. The death certificate records his age as 92 years old, having been in Canada for 70 years. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">In 1863 Silva was operating a fruit and vegetable store in Victoria. There he met a daughter of an Indian Chief from Cowichan whom he christened “Louise.” He married her in 1873. She was just 15. That year Silva purchased 237 acres on Mayne Island and moved there in the spring of 1874. “Louise” was apprehensive about marriage but Silva, “was kind and gentle and he took her to his log cabin … it was a dirt floor … he made the fire and Louise baked the bread.” </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">Louise learned to make the dishes her husband liked. They built a house, cleared the land and planted the first apple orchard in the Gulf Islands. They had ten children but tragedy struck while still on Mayne Island. Two of their children drowned when their canoe overturned in Active Pass, “they got drowned … grandpa dove down six or seven times, … mum was on the shore on a little ledge with my uncle holding her … and my grandfather said to her, I feel so badly, I should be down there myself … but my grandmother … a very practical, wonderful women said … now you listen here, you have two children over there on the ledge, they need you … so he decided not to drown himself.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Silva’s sold out in 1883. They tried fishing at Lulu Island on the mouth of the Fraser River before settling down on Gabriola Island the following year. They purchased 133 acres of abandoned homestead land on what is now known as Silva Bay. It was paid in four years.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">In addition to farming, Silva built the “Corliss Queen” to fish. He also raised sheep and planted orchards.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">In 1914, three of the Silva boys left to serve in the First World War. One was killed, another badly wounded.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">In 1920 the Silva’s donated land and helped build a Catholic church. They also donated land to build a public school.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">A grand daughter recalls, “ he just spoke broken English, my grandfather spoke Portuguese and very broken English … he was speaking Portuguese to my aunty, that was my mother’s brother’s wife, she would translate … my grandpa … he was a good man.”<br />
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We learn some details about this Portuguese from Cape Verde from the historian Manuel Azevedo in the book of Jean Barman “ The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey”. He said that Silva of Gabriola Island, planted what may have been the province’s first apple orchard on Mayne Island.”<br />
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Had been born about the same time than as Portuguese Joe. According to Silva’s descendants, the two men jumped ship together. Silva worked for a time on coastal steamers, and by 1863 was operating a fruit and vegetable store in Victoria. He wanted more, and in 1873 he took up land on Mayne Island. Shortly thereafter he married Louisa, the 15- year-old daughter of Cowichan chief. The story that has been passed down in the family has John Silva giving his future in-laws “two horses hitched and ready for working-two horses and about three sacks of spuds.” This arrangement, like other cross-cultural unions, was difficult at first, as described by Louisa’s granddaughter Margaret.” She was really frightened of marriage, you know, how it would be, so she was given part of the boat and she was crying away.<br />
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And my grandfather was kind and gentle and he took her to his log cabin on Mayne Island and mother said it was a dirt floor-a log cabin- And mother said that Grandpa said, “well the first thing you have to do, Louisa, is to make a batch of bread because we do not have any bread,” so he got the fire going [and when] she was making the bread she was crying into the dough.”<br />
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John Silva fished and Louisa bore the children, 10 of them. Like his friend Portuguese Joe, John Silva soon decided that there was no turning back. On June 27, 1876, he took his oath as British subject, which entitled him to own outright the land on which they lived.<br />
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A few years later, in the early 1880’s, the Silva family moved to from Mayne to Gabriola Island because of persistent native raiding parties on their sheep. According to the granddaughter Margaret, ”The Haida Indians kept coming through the passageway and they’d hoot and they’d holler and away they would come and they were a pretty fearful bunch and my grandfather kept sheep and he had goats and he had geese and stuff and these Indians would come through and they’d take half of his stuff to feed their families- I guess they did not like to live on fish all the time!-and anyway my grandmother decided,” I am not living here,” so she said to my grandfather, “I want to get out of here,” and so she talked him into moving to Gabriola Island.”<br />
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John Silva is mentioned a couple of times but it his hard to know who are his children because some of the children of another Portuguese Joseph Silva (Silvey) are also mentioned. Silva, John, born circa 1846 in Portugal or Azores Islands, (BC41-FN187) Silva, John, farmer living in 1901 on Gabriola Island (BC2-280) Silva, Louisa, (Native Indian), born circa 1856 in British Columbia (BC41-FN198) Silva, Louisa, homemaker/wife, living in1881 in Cowichan and Salt Spring Islands (BC41-FN198) (I am not sure which ones are his children).<br />
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</b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-75310156465599567422011-08-25T09:27:00.000-07:002011-08-25T09:27:53.718-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">JOHN NORTON</span></b><br />
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John Norton was born in the Azores on the 4 Aug 1823. He settled the area north of the hospital in Salt Spring Islands. He had a farm there. (Salt Spring archives). He was married to Annie a black lady from San Francisco. Norton when he was 44, he was listed as a widow we may assume that his previous wife had died and he married Annie when she was only 18. See the list of his family members below.<br />
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H1/05/01 Norton, John, m, h, m, 4 Aug 1823, 77, POR, to Can: 1859, RC, Farmer. ……Rems: MR: John Norton, 44, r.SSI, b.Azores Is., wid, farmer, RC, s.o.Antonie & Marie mar Annie Robinson, 18, r.SSI, b.San Francisco, CA, USA, WM, d.o.Henry W. & Margaret, 8 Dec 1873, Cowichan District.<br />
H1/05/02 Norton, Annie, f, wife, m, 24 Jul 1836, 64, USA, to Can: 1858, RC.<br />
H1/05/03 Norton, John J., m, son, s, 23 Sep 1871, 29, BC, RC, Farmer.<br />
H1/05/04 Norton, Dorothy, f, dau, s, 7 May 1879, 21, BC, RC.<br />
H1/05/05 Norton, Walter N., m, son, s, 23 Sep 1880, 20, BC, RC.<br />
H1/05/06 Norton, Albert A., m, son, s, 30 Apr 1882, 18, BC, RC.<br />
H1/05/07 Norton, Elsie M., f, dau, s, 23 Sep 1886, 14, BC, RC.<br />
H1/05/08 Norton, Robert P., m, son, s, 10 Jan 1889, 12, BC, RC.<br />
H1/05/09 Norton, Maud B., f, dau, s, 26 May 1891, 9, BC, RC.<br />
H1/05/10 Norton, Pearl V., f, dau, s, 27 Jun 1893, 7, BC, RC.<br />
H1/05/11 Norton, Grace, f, dau, s, 17 Nov 1896, 4, BC, RC.<br />
H1/05/12 Norton, Joseph, m, son, s, 3 Jul 1899, 1, BC, RC.<br />
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Victoria Cencus 1901 (source http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbc/1901vic_cen/divh1/divh1p04.htm)<br />
Jan 13, Salt Spring Island, of consumption, Louisa, wife of John NORTON. She leaves a family of 3 small children. (from The Victoria Daily Standard, 1873, Death Notices) source http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbc/newspapers/vic_news_1873d.htm We may assume this was a wife of Jonh Norton the Portuguese men.<br />
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John Norton was also in court for the death of William Robinson. There was a book written about this case of an African American killed on the island. The book has been examined in detail. An Indian as convicted for the murder. A convicton widely debated and controversial. Some may seem to be pointing to John Norton as the potential murderer. (source http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/faculty/kelly/blogs/h100mt4/archives/cat_investigations.html)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-50339967221822799482011-08-25T09:25:00.000-07:002011-08-25T09:25:06.356-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Estalon Jose Bittancourt</span></b><br />
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Bittencourt was probably one of the first 40 settlers that arrived in Salt Springs or he may have arrived shortly after the first wave . The Victoria Gazette, on the 22nd of November 1859 reported: “ We are informed that the number of actual settlers now on Salt Spring is 40, a majority whom are putting up buildings and making other preparations towards permanently establishing themselves as agriculturists upon their claims.” There are sources mentioning the Bittencourt presence on the island as early as 1861.<br />
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Charles Khan in the “Story of an Island, puts the arrival of the Portuguese around 1860. “The Vesuvius-Central area was settled mainly by two groups: Blacks mostly from California, and Portuguese. Thirteen Black settlers arrived in 1859, and several others joined them the next year. The Portuguese—John Norton, Delarvo Norton, Estalon Jose Bittencourt, and Manoel Bittencourt—also arrived around 1860. “<br />
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Jose Estalon from Salt Spring Islands was one of the first Bittencourt to arrive in Canada (his brother Manuel Antoine may have come with him). He was born in the Azores on the 9 of September 1839. One of his ancestors said he was born in Ponta Delgado in Sao Miguel . Source: http://www.jenforum.org/bettencourt/messages/80.html<br />
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Jean Barman in “The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey” mentions: Estalon and Manuel Bittancourt came from the Azores via the Australian gold rush of the early1850s. Sometime thereafter they persuaded their fellow Azorean John Norton to join them on Salt Spring Island…”<br />
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The Bittencourts seemed that had a serious influence in bringing some Portuguese to the island. Although, Charles Khan, Pretends in his book that John Norton was the one who influenced in settling in the island. (Khan mentions on the advice of another Portuguese, John Norton, he moved to Salt Spring and became a successful entrepreneur).<br />
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If we had a doubt who influenced who, we know where E.J settled. “On Salt Spring, the intrepid Portuguese brothers, Manoel Antoine (Antonio?) and Estalon Jose Bittencourt, held prosperous sections in the vicinity of Vesuvius Bay.” Source Salt Spring Saga<br />
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Later on he may have acquired more land. We know that the Bittencourt family settled on the land of an Afro-American called William Robinson from New-Jersey who was murdered in 1868. We can assume that they took possession of the land after that year. We have to remember that they were already living in the island way before the murder we may assume they may just have expanded their land assets from their previous holdings. The land of both parties were near each other close to Vesuvius Bay. Source: http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol3/robinson/robinson.html<br />
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Charles Khan mentions that “Vesuvius Bay, in the north end of the Island, was largely dominated by Estalon Jose Bittancourt, a Portuguese born in the Azores in 1845.”<br />
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After many years it is hard to separate some facts from legend. Charles Khan writes; “ in some ways Bittencourt was a romantic figure. According to one story, he went to sea at about fifteen by swimming to a sailing ship. Whem he reached Vancouver Island, he was refused shore leave but swam ashore at Royal Roads.”<br />
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There is no denying all the influence that Bittencourt in the early development of the Island.<br />
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E.J Bittencourt played a major role in transporting people to the area “settlers brought sailing vessels with them, and some, such as E.J Bittancourt, provided transport service for their fellow Islanders. Most people, however, relied on the traditional Salish canoe… source “Story of an Island” It may be possible that E.J came to the island on his own schooner. How he was able to buy a big boat after only a few years in Canada shows his truly amazing entrepreunial spirit.<br />
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In the book of Salt Spring Saga we also learned that Bittencourt used his schooner also to transport arms to defend the island. The author mentions the numerous skirmishes between the settlers and the natives. The Bittencourt Schooner played a major role to defend the island from the antagonistic natives. “In 1861 the Bittencourt Schooner made the perilous run to Victoria, from Vesuvius Bay, It will include in the return cargo revolvers, rifles and ammunition.”<br />
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He also contributed to the building of the St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church. According to Bea Hamilton author of the book Salt Spring Island there were 4 catholic families in the island which seem to be a low number but there is five names who were mentioned as contributors to the building of this beautiful St. Paul’s rock church still standing today on Fulford Harbor, it was built between 1880-1885. “E.J Bittencourt, who had the first store in Vesuvius: John pappenburger, first mail carrier from Beaver Point: John King: Dick Purser and Michael Gyves Sr., of Burgogne Valley.”<br />
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He also had a stone quarry. Khan talks on his book about the Caldwell brothers working on the sandstone quarry of Estalon Bittancourt in Vesuvius. He also mentions about the quarry of Bittencourt which opened in 1886. He said the “sandstone going into the Esquimalt graving dock, the seawall of Victoria’s inner harbour, and the San Francisco mint. “ Bittencourt split his sandstone from the bedrock with wedges , placed it on six-wheeled carts, and winched it down a ramp onto scows. In 1913 the quarry still employed twenty-five East Indians…”<br />
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In the 1891 census E.J Bittencourt was listed as the only General Store of the island.<br />
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According to Khan the store opened in 1873 on the site of the today’s Vesuvius Inn parking lot. Thirteen years later he added a post office. He also notes, “During his life on the island, Bittancourt operated sandstone quarries, farmed, mined coal, and built several fine houses. In 1878, Father Gustave Donckele from Saanich Mission said the first mass on Salt Spring in a private chapel on the second floor of Bittancourt’s house. About ten years later, Bittancourt built a chapel in a separate building, which he called the “Ark.” This building was still standing in 1998. His zeal for his religion seems characteristic of the people from the Azores.<br />
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He was married to Catherine in 1901 who was born in Ontario. He was a dry good merchant. He died in Vesuvius Bay on May 1 1917. He had many sons and daughters. They were: Lawrence, Francis, Frederick, George, Rosalia, Elizebeth, Agnes, Laureta, Source and more detailed info: http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbc/1901vic_cen/divh1/divh1p01.htm (Victoria Census 1901)<br />
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The author Eric A. Roberts talks about the giants of Salt Springs and he mentions the special contribution to the settling of the island by the Portuguese pioneers: “… it is easy to do less than justice to the many groups of which the pioneer community was composed. One such group deserving of special mention were the Portuguese brothers Manoel Antoine and Estalon Jose Bittencourt and Joao and Del’Arvo or Delarvo Norton. In View of the contribution they made to the progress of the island by hard work, personal industry, initiative and enterprise, a brief reference to the Portugal they left may not be out of place.” The author goes on to explain the poor economic and political state of Portugal left behind by the pioneers.<br />
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The author goes on and he said: “The Bittancourts and the Nortons made excellent settlers. In the initial phases, the Bittancourt schooner was the one link between Salt Spring and Victoria. The will and the resolution of the two families never weakened during the dark times of the Indian troubles and they won esteem and respect of the community, which their successors have retained most worthily.” Source Salt Spring Saga<br />
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In the back of the book cover the author also says: the Portuguese, the Kanakas (Hawaians) and the rich, warm story of the coloured people from strife-torn U.S.A, who carried the torch of learning on the island when times were perilious,”<br />
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According to Khan “ Until the thirties , only about 4 families lived in Vesuvius village. Some of Estalon Bittencourt’s children stayed in the Bittencourt homes near today’s Vesuvius Ferry terminal site. In 1918, Arthur and Nancy Inglis bought ten acres, put up cottages and tents, and took up tourists.”<br />
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One map drawn by a teacher in 1912 shows 4 houses owned by the Bittencourts three are listed as A. R. Bittencourt. One can ask himself if any of the Bittencourt kids had houses on the Island besides his nephew Abraham. There is also a Museum called the Bittencourt Museum on the island. I assume it is related to the same family.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-15061062490974451372011-08-25T09:22:00.000-07:002011-08-25T09:22:12.575-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Abraham Reid Bittencourt</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">from fernandocandido</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">)</span><br />
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He was the nephew of Estalon . He also lived in Salt Springs but he was a second generation Portuguese he was born in Vancouver Island. His father was Emanuel (Manuel Antoine Bittencourt).<br />
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The following information was from the book of Charles Khan, “Salt Spring the Story of an Island”. Khan said Abraham Reid Bittancourt was running a store in Ganges Hill since 1900. There is a picture of his store circa 1907 on page 146 .It was a beautiful house. Bittancourt sold his store in 1910 to G.J. Mouat and Company held by Jane Mouat and her son Gilbert James.<br />
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On page 148 there is a picture of the boat of Abraham. His boat according to the author was called the Victor. He had also a boat called Winamac. It was used to chase rumrunners but he also used it probably also for fishing and carrying animals back in forth to the market.<br />
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On page 157 there is a map of the island and the emplacement of the settler’s houses. A teacher drew this map and we can see three houses belonging to Abraham Reid all near Ganges Harbor. We do not know if his father owned any of them because his name is not mentioned. It is also possible that some members of his family were staying in his houses and one of those buildings was probably a store. On the map there was 148 houses. Water was supplied to his buildings by a pipeline, which took water from Ganges Hill from a spring.<br />
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He was serious land owner that may have made somewhat wealthy for those days. He was also one of the first one owning his own car. He had the distinction to be according to Khan to have received the first speeding ticket in 1913 a fine of $15.00.<br />
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Reid Bittencourt was also a talented house builder. He may have build his own property because he did not lack skills. He build one house that according to the author was the largest of the time, a twelve room mansion.<br />
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On page 210 of the same book we see Abraham with his son Lyndell cutting logs from a very large tree with a fancy machine called the “Wee MacGregor”. The picture was taken in 1931. He may have bought the machine to cut wood to sell to the homesteaders.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-60840669490511724752011-08-25T09:16:00.000-07:002011-08-25T09:19:56.104-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Joseph and Annie Morais</span></b><br />
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He owned and operated a hotel, restaurant and miners exchange in 1861 in Victoria. Cape Verdean? Madeira?<br />
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<tr valign="TOP"><td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Morais, Annie</div></td><td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Listed as Head</div><div lang="en-US">October 17, 1866, South Africa, George son DOB Jan 31 1881, Louis son DOB Feb 13 1886, Annie daughter July 31 1882.</div></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-80274078681293008042011-08-25T09:15:00.000-07:002011-08-25T09:15:05.196-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Joe Perry</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(from fernandocandido)</span><br />
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Perry, also a sailor, was a large and powerful black man from the Azores who was known in Irvine's Landing as a kind and gentle person. Gonsalves and Dames, with Perry as an employee, expanded Wests' supply post to include a hotel and saloon while Gonsalves continued to fish his seine boat, the Hermosa , with Perry as a deckhand.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-84509286211568529192011-08-25T09:13:00.000-07:002011-08-25T09:13:31.339-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">JOE FLORES</span></b><br />
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Joseph Bettencourt. He was born in Flores Azores and he later changed his name to Jos Flores. He had a twin brother called Charlie. He arrived in Canada when he was 16 years old. On November 30, 1886 he married Marguerite Kwitkwitlinak in Kamloops, BC. They had the following children: Jimmy, Johnnie, Joe, Manuel, Maria, Bill, Frank, Kathern (spelling?) Louis. Source: http://genforum.genealogy.com/bettencourt/messages/97.html<br />
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He settled in the Fraser Valley. http://genforum.genealogy.com/bettencourt/messages/77.htmlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-80763267378005332552011-08-25T09:06:00.000-07:002011-08-25T09:06:37.438-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ff6666;"></span><br />
<h2>Early Portuguese Immigrants in British Columbia</h2><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/bcportuguese.html">http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/bcportuguese.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/abrahambittancourt">Abraham Reid Bittancourt</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/emmanuelbittancourt">Emmanuel Bittancourt</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/estalonbittancourt">Estalon Bittancourt</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/joefernandez">Joe Fernandez</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/joeflores">Joe Flores</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/joegoncalves">Joe Goncalves</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/joelewis">Joe Lewis</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/moraes">Joseph Morais</a><a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/delarvonorton">Delarvo Norton </a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/johnnorton">John Norton</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/joeperry">Joe Perry</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/joesilvey">Joe Silvey</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/petersmith">Peter Smith</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-59493671141009612152011-08-24T23:41:00.000-07:002011-09-01T22:19:01.996-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Quebec Pioneers</span></b></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(adapted from Lusitania.ca, by Manuel Azevedo)</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><u>Esther Brandeau-Canada’s first Jewess?*</u></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite a French prohibition against non-Catholics from settling in its colonies, Portuguese names appear in New France (Quebec) in the early 1700’s; Joseph da Silva of Montreal, a creditor of the government (referred to as “the so-called Portuguese”), Maranda from Bayone (1711) and Jacob Coste (1744), and not to forget Canada's first letter carrier, Pedro da Silva** (1673), born in the heart of the Great Judiaria of Lisbon. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, it is Esther Brandeau who arrived in New France in 1738 that was the first Jewess to immigrate to Canada. Except she was not a youthful twenty-year-old Esther who arrived aboard the ship, the St. Michel, but rather a young man named Jacques la Fangue, her alias. Esther arrived wearing boys clothes!</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brandeau was arrested and lacking an appropriate jail, was detained at the hospital. On September 15, 1738, she appeared before the Marine Commission of Quebec and declared her name to be Esther Brandeau, daughter of David Brandeau (Brandao?), a Jew of St. Esprit diocese, a suburb of Bayonne near Bordeaux in south west France, long known as a haven for “Portuguese merchants”, a euphemism for New Christians fleeing the Inquisition in Portugal.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The amalgamation of the Spanish and Portuguese crown in 1580 to 1640 facilitated the exodus of Portuguese Jews to France. The Governor of New France, a cousin of the King, reported to the Minister of Colonies that many attempts were made to persuade Esther to abandon her religion, but she refused. Intendant Hocquart reported, “<i>Her conduct has not been wholly bad but she is so frivolous that at different times she has been both obedient and obstinate with regard to the instruction the priests desired to give her. I have no other alternative than to send her back</i>.”</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so after spending about a year in Canada, Esther was deported back to France on the express orders of the King who also paid for her passage</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Portuguese Place Names in Canada<br />
by Manuel Azevedo<br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Portuguese people have been coming to Canada for centuries. In 2003 Canada Post issued a commemorative stamp celebrating the 300</span><sup><span style="font-size: medium;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"> anniversary of Canada’s first letter carrier, Pedro da Silva, likely a Portuguese New Christian from Lisbon via France to New France. It is well known that Portuguese sailors fished of the Grand Banks since the 15</span><sup><span style="font-size: medium;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"> century. Portugal Cove in Newfoundland is ostensibly the place where the Portuguese explorers, the Corte Real brothers buried two men. Some historians assert that they visited Canada in the early 1400’s, before Cartier and some even go so far as to say that the very name Canada is derived from the Portuguese “Canada”, (a narrow trail) which divided the land in the upper St. Lawrence between the Portuguese and New France. Apart from Portuguese Cove in Nova Scotia, this writer is unaware of any other Portuguese place names on the east coast.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The bulk of present day Portuguese Canadians derive from post 1950’s immigration. However, as Professor Jean Barman’s book, <i>The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey</i> (Harbour Publishing, 2004), shows, there was a small community of Portuguese pioneers in British Columbia before Confederation. This group of virtually unknown early pioneers were mostly former whalers who deserted the ships of the Pacific whaling fleet for the California gold rush of 1849 and the British Columbia gold rush of 1858. They generally married Aboriginal women. They left small footprints but big shoes in the history of British Columbia.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> There are few Portuguese derived geographical names on the west coast. There are none named after the most famous of those pioneers, Portuguese Joe Silvey who married Khaltinaht, Chief Kiapilano’s granddaughter. A contemporary of Gassy Jack, he built the first non-aboriginal house in Stanley Park, ran a saloon in Gastown and in 1868 attempted to lease 20 acres at Brockton Point. He died on Reid Island where he raised a second family of 10 children after the death of his first wife.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Several pioneers have left their mark on the geography of British Columbia. Silva bay on Gabriola Island is named after John Silva who came to B.C. in 1859. In 1863 he operated a fruit and vegetable store at 27 John Street in Victoria. In 1873 he and his wife, Louisa, daughter of a Cowichan Indian chief, purchased 237 acres on Maine Island. He started BC’s first apple orchard there. The couple had ten children but when two of their children drowned in Plumper Pass, they moved to Gabriola Island. Three of their children served in the First World War, one was killed and one badly injured. On Gabriola, the family donated land for the Catholic Church and a public school. John died in 1929. Although some family members claim his real name was Jacques Almeida, born in Lisbon, the 1881 census states the Azores as his birthplace.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Enos Lake and Enos Creek in Nannose Bay are named after the first European settler there, John Enos (Joao Ignacio), a native of the island of Santa Maria in the Azores. He settled there in 1862 after seeking his fortune in the gold rush. He almost drowned at Yale in 1859, when his raft overturned. In 1890 he sold his farm and returned to the Azores, the only one of the pioneers to do so. However, he returned two years later after being rejected by his childhood sweetheart. He retired in 1894 to a ward in St Joseph’s Hospital in Victoria but did not die until 1921 at the age of 87. He rode his bicycle around Victoria and played the guitar for the nuns of St. Ann’s who looked after him. </span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Saltspring Island has two roads named after early Portuguese pioneers, Bittancourt and Norton Roads. The Bittancourt brothers, Estalon and Manuel Antonio probably arrived on the island in 1859 from the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores. Although Manuel vanished after 1881, Estalon went on to become a prosperous and prominent resident with large real estate holdings and powerful friends in the Legislature. He built the Vesuvius Bay Lodge and operated a store and post office there. The Hotel burned down in 1975. He also mined coal and operated extensive quarries which supplied stone to the Parliament buildings, Victoria churches, the inner harbour and dry docks in Victoria and Esquimalt and the San Francisco mint. Today, Bittancourt House, the Saltspring museum is named after this industrious pioneer.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The Norton brothers, John and Delarvo left the island of Flores, Azores at a very young age and were ‘adopted” by a whaling captain named Norton from Boston Massachussets. They settled in Saltspring in 1858 or 1859. In 1903 John Norton established the Northwest Creamery which became the leading dairy in Victoria until its sale in the 1990s. </span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Many Portuguese pioneers contributed to the building of British Columbia. Joe Gonsalves who arrived in Gastown in 1874 to look after his uncle Gregory Fernandes, the first storekeeper in Vancouver, eventually settled at Pender Harbour on the sunshine coast where Madeira Park was named after him. He lived many years in Stanley Park with other Portuguese pioneers like Peter Smith (aka Portuguese Pete), one of the founders of the whaling industry in B.C. Their children married and died in Stanley Park, yet there is no geographical recognition of their presence at Brockton Point where some of them are buried. They and others, including First Nations citizens were evicted by the City of Vancouver in a court case that went all the way to Supreme Court of Canada which rendered an unjust decision against the pioneer settlers and First Nations.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The earliest Portuguese presence in B.C. dates to the fur trading wars of the Spanish and English which almost led to war between Spain and England, but diplomacy prevailed. Captain Vancouver’s sailed to BC in 1792 to implement the terms of a peace treaty between England and Spain. In 1787 and 1788 Captain John Meares, a retired British naval officer turned fur trade merchant brought a ship named the <i>Iphigenia Nubian</i> from the Portuguese colony of Macao in China where his partner, Joao Carvalho had outfitted the ship with a Portuguese flag and Portuguese co-captain, Francisco Viana, a native of Lisbon. The ships sailing papers were in Portuguese. The Spanish captured the ship at Nootka but later released it. She was still on the coast in 1792, for Captain Vancouver makes reference that a Portuguese ship was in distress in the Queen Charlotte Islands.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> On the east coast of Canada, one of the earliest interpreters between the Aboriginals and French was Mathieu Da Costa of whom very little is known. He was a linguist and interpreter who acted as Samuel Champlain’s interpreter aboard the ship “Jonas” which sailed from La Rochelle in France to Acadia in 1606. He may have been born in the Azores. He had darker skin than his European employers and this has led to speculation that he may have been the offspring of a Portuguese father and an African mother-after all, there is a saying in Portuguese that God created the white person and the black person, but the Portuguese created the mulato.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Portugal Cove, Newfoundland</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia</span><br />
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644459603901212830.post-8251923603821400812011-08-24T23:32:00.000-07:002011-08-25T09:18:02.232-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">NAMES/DOCUMENTS</span></b>-a work in progress<br />
(Thanks to Chris Hanna, researcher and Roy Silva)<br />
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Caros, Marianos</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1881 Census</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">33, Fisherman</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">wife Sarah 28, Born BC, NA Indian</div><div lang="en-US">District 190-B- Johnston St. Ward, Page 6 entry 10</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Castro, Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">60 yrs old, Died May 31 1876, Packer</div><div lang="en-US"><br />
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Castro, Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Marries Dorothy Wetsue 1913-12-25 Vancouver</div></td> </tr>
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">DeCosta, Leuis Charles(7)</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Married to Kerr, Florence Maud(8), 1905 Esquimalt.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">DeCosta, Margaret(9)</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Married Wellington, Edward(10), in 1874 in Victoria</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Demacedo, Joachim Anthony(11)</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Died 81 yrs old, 1922 Victoria</div></td> </tr>
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Fernandez, Antonio(18)</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Died, 64, in 1912 in Vancouver</div></td> </tr>
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Flores, Pedro(23)</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">49, 1901, North Vancouver</div></td> </tr>
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Flores, Benson(25)</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">81, 1929, Vnacouver</div></td> </tr>
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Gonsalves, Joseph(35)</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Death Certificate – DOB January 9 1857, Death June 3, 1939 (82) – In Province 65 yrs -</div><div lang="en-US">Noted Hotel Keeper, General Merchant.</div></td> </tr>
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Gonsalves, Albert Joseph(37)</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Death January 17, 1981in Kamloops.</div><div lang="en-US">DOB March 28, 1915 Father – Alfred Gonsalves(38)</div></td> </tr>
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Charos, -(43)</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">37, 1891 Census</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Speculators Agent?</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Born in US – Father from Portugal</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Married to Rebecca(44), 27 (Born BC) (Father Born Germany – Mother US),</div><div lang="en-US">Children Clara(45), 7( Born US), Judith(46) (Born US)</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Religion for Joseph Catholic/Methodist?</div><div lang="en-US">Wife Anna is Metodist</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Manuella, J</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Male! Portugal 1891 Census? 28 years old.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Norton, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1829 – 1911</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">(First Wife Louise m 1866)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-US">(2</span><sup><span lang="en-US">nd</span></sup><span lang="en-US"> Wife Annie Robinson (1856 –1903) m. 1873 Saltspring)</span></div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Born in Flores 1829 Died in Saltspring 1911</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Came to BC in 1859</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">4 children w/ Lousie</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">(Emmanuel, John, William and Elizabeth)</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">9 Children w/ Annie( Dorothy Marian(1879), Walter Newton(1880), Albert A. (1882), Marian Elsie E. (1886),</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Robert P. (1889), Maude Beatrice (1891), Pearl V. (1893), Grace (1896), Joseph (1899)</div><div lang="en-US"><br />
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Norton, Everett Harold</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1898 – 1942</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Son of John Norton Jr.</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">John Joseph Norton and Margaret Kiarney.</div><div lang="en-US">John Joseph born in Saltspring 1872</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Norton, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Marriage Certificate indicates John Norton born in the Azores.</div><div lang="en-US">Marriage to Annie Robinson Dec 8 1873, Her Religion indicated as Wesleyan Methodist.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Norton, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Death Certificate, 88, indicates he was a farmer from Flores island. Informant Walter Norton, Son of the Deceased, October 1 1911, Roman Catholic</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Norton and Bittancourt</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div lang="en-US">Bittancourt is noted as storekeeper</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Norton, </div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1891 Census , 67 yrs old, Wife Anneal, Born in W.S.</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Shows fathers place of birth as Portugal and Mother, Ireland</div><div lang="en-US">Religion - ?</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Norton, John Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Marriage Certificate of Marriage Margaret Lena Kairney of San Juan Island. Both Catholic</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Joseph and Kate Quadros</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US"><br />
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1891 Census, Joseph Quadra, 50, male, from Portugal, Catholic, Trader.</div><div lang="en-US">Wife, Kate, 25</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Naturalization of Joseph Quadra, March 1 1881, In BC at least since 1878.</div><div lang="en-US"><br />
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US"><br />
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Backing page 1881 Quadros</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">(1843?) 1837 – 1929</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">married to Louisa (1856 – 1926)</div><div lang="en-US">10 Children born btwn 1873 and 1895 (John(b 1873), Isabelle(b 1874), Mary(b 1876), Joseph(1879-1954), William(1894-1907), Luis, Frank, John(d 1965), Louis(1895-1946), James Edward(1898-1971)</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silvey, Domingo</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Listed as Domingo Silver, married to Josephine Crocker</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silver, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Married Melanie Hoigwaat, 1881, Victoria</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silver, Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Married Minnie Beul, 1904 Cooper Island</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Jesse and Rose Silver?</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Buried 1917 1916 respectively in Vancouver.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Clara Minnie Silvey</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Married to Greig Anthony Bell, 1921, Ladysmith 1-19</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Dora Silvey</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Married Harry Perry, 1909, Vancouver 10-23</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Elizabeth Silvey</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Married James Walker, 1883, July 15 Nanaimo </div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Margaritte Silvey</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Married Howard Henry Hill, 1914 Vancouver 4-3</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, Alexander</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Dies 1963 Alert Bay</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Alexis Evyonne Silva, Baby, 1949, 8-29, North Vancouver</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Alfred Theodore Silva, 81, 1966, 1-7 Matsqui</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Antone Silva, 24, 1890, 1-8 Vancouver</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Baby Silva, 0, 1925 10-24 Nanaimo</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Baby Silva, 0, 1923, 1-6 N Van</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Elizabeth Silvey, 76, 1964 12-10 N Van</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Francis Silva, baby, 1922 4-15 Nanaimo</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Manny Silva, 20, 1922, 3-14</div><div lang="en-US">Mary Jane Silva, 24, 1925 10-28 Nanaimo</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silver, Rose Isabella</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Marries John Turti, 1909, 6-16 Victoria </div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">John Silva m. Emily Ritter, 1916, 7-15 N. Van.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silvey, John Manuel, Manuel Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Joseph Silvy m. Lucy Kwatlemut, 1872, 9-20, New West.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Index of Deaths</div><div lang="en-US"><br />
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">William Silva</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">23, died 1907, 12-1, Gabriola Island</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, Manuel</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">48, 1954, 6-9 N Van</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, Louis</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">50, 1946, 6-27, Port Alberni </div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, Margarite Pearl</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">DOB 1896 1-19, New West</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Death Certificate, Died, July 10, 1929, Widower, DOB 1837, In the province of Nears</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1881 Census</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Family, Wife Indian</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Children Portuguese</div><div lang="en-US">Portuguese Fisherman from Azores, Catholic, 35 years old.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Naturalization of John Silva, of Main Island, June 1876.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Signed own name with accent on the a, clear concise penmanship, </div><div lang="en-US">For residence, June 27, 1876. Signed twice on document both times with accent on a.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1901 Census</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Indicates year of immigration to Canada as 1866, and naturalization as 1876</div><div lang="en-US">Indicating Farmer, John Portuguese, Maryanne as Indian, </div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1891 Census</div><div lang="en-US">Farmer</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, Louisa</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Death Certificate, Gabriola Island, June 3, 1926, indicating racial origin as Indian, Married, DOB Unknown</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Marriage Certificate to Mamie Blank, Daughter of William Blank and Mary Hower, Father indicated as Fisherman, Church of England, Married in St. Pauls Church in Nanaimo, Anglican.</div><div lang="en-US">Clergyman signs as A. Silva White</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silver, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">DOB 1850 Madeira, 1901 Census, Born January 13 1850, year immigrated to Canada 1873, Naturalized 1878, Roman Catholic, General Contractor, Wife is Mary, DOB June 27, 1852, 48, Racial Origin English</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Children (John F jr.(DOB April 25, 1886, BC), Rose(DOB 1887, BC), Henry(August 4 1890, BC)</div><div lang="en-US"><br />
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">D’Silvea, William</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">DOB March 3 1867, Naturalized 1896, Portuguese, Presbyterian.</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Wife Ellen(DOB May 30, 1862, 48, New Brunswick, Irish)</div><div lang="en-US">Children (Birtham(June 15 1880, England, 1896 Portuguese), Mabe(October 21, 1886, US), William (January 16 1890, US), Charles S(October 18, 1891, US)</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silvey, Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Application May 15? 1868 to buy 20 acres, in Burrard Inlet near Brocton Point, which request was denied, signed by the Honourable of Lands and Parks. </div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silvy, Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Lease request of 1868 in Stanley Park</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Rejection dated May 19, 1868, Request made May 15</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Map 2 of George Turner, 1874, Main Island, Large Plot noted under his name off Ellich Bay</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silvy, Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">38, of Piepika Island, Portugal, Described as Single white male, Fisherman, Parents John Silvy and Francesca Hyacintha. Married to Lucy Kwatleematth, 15, Married in Shishels, September 20, 1872, Westminster Registry #3</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Death Certificate district of Nanaimo, Number 2282, January 171902 Reed Island 66 yrs old. Was actually 72? Roman Catholic</div><div lang="en-US"><br />
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silvey, Manuel</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Marriage to Charlotte L(S?)evardra, he 23, she 22, Married May 4, 1907, She’s from N Van, widow, Parents Names Manuel Andrews and Indian Lucy, Witnesses were Henry and Rosaline Silvey at Reed Island.</div><div lang="en-US">Preist Father W Lemmens, Married at Chapel of Industrial School on Cooper Island</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Death Certificate of Josephine Anderson Shows Father as Joseph Sylva, Resides Simoon Sound, Buried at Mountain view, March 29, 1930</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Marriage of Laura Walker, 19, July 15, 1883, Cooper Island, Her name is Elizabeth Sylvia, His James Walker of Cooper Island, married at Thetes? Island, He is Farmer.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Elizabeth Walker</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Death Certificate, DOB July 9 1872. Pager Mathews estimated 1868?</div><div lang="en-US">Father noted as Joseph Silvey of Portugal</div></td> </tr>
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<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silva, Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1881 Census, Male, 50, Portugal, Fisherman, married to Mary, 26, BC</div><div lang="en-US">Children (Elizabeth 18, Jakarta 14, Dominic 11, Joseph 7, Estalan 5, Indicated as Portuguese</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1891 Census page 7, District #3 Vancouver, Showing Joseph Silvey 50 and Lucy 30, Domingo 18, Mary 16, Joseph 13, John 9, Antonio 7, Emmanuel 5, and Andrew S 5/12. </div><div lang="en-US">Occupation Fisherman & Farmer</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1901 Census Reid Island, Vancouver Electoral District ?</div><div lang="en-US">Domingo Silvey wife Josephine, Children Joseph 3, John 2</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Entry 30</div><div lang="en-US">Joseph Sylvia, head, Born in 1820, 80, Fisherman, Wife Mary, 75 BC Indian, Children Manuel 17, March 1 1887, Henry 1890 BC, Rosalia 1892, Mary 1825, Antonia 1884 </div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Souza, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Death March 28, 1905, Nanaimo Hospital, 92, Fisherman, Indicating born in Italy, Catholic</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Souza, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Medical Death Certificate, Died of Senility, March 28, 1905</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Suza, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Census 1891, Vancouver District #3, 78 yrs old, Portuguese, Catholic, Fisherman, appears to be living alone</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Silver, John</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1891 Census, District Number 4 City of Victoria, Page 13, $0 yrs Old, Male Born in Portugal, Married to Mary, 35, born in Nova Scotia.</div><div lang="en-US">Children (John 5, Rosa 3, Henry 8/12) all born in BC. Roman Catholic</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Smith, Peter</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">DOB June 15, 1833</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Came to BC in 1860, Married aboriginal born about 1856, Established Relationship in 1874 she was 18, she was not recorded with him at the time of the 1901 census.</div><div lang="en-US">But he indicates he was still married, 1901 living James and Mary Dunbar in Sam King, Chinese Domestic Servant. Died Sept 4 1905, In Hospital in Vancouver, 74, Fisherman, Daughter Maria Smith died Sept 3, 1905 Brocton point in Stanley Park, she was 18 months old.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Smith, Peter</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Death Certificate, indicating Fisherman from Portugal, Cancer of the Pyloris for 6 months, Bill Wilde was physician, Religion Methodist, Registrar Abbot</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Smith, Maria</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">Death Certificate, Brocton Point, registered Sept 12, 1905, Religion Methodist, Registrar Dabbtt, Illness PHTHISIS, O Wilde, Shows here as being 17 yrs old, illness for 1.5 years</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1901 Census District #1 Burrard, Enumeration April 29 1901.</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Shows Peter Smith, Male, born 1833, daughter Maria 1888, Reta 1891, Maria and Reta are indicated as Siwaash, Live in Sam King.</div><div lang="en-US">Roomer 54, born 1867, Chinese, Came to Canada 1890, In bracket page 212, Joseph Gonsalves.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Enoch, Robert</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US">31, Born 1870 Portugal, 1893 1897 Portuguese Roman Catholic, Fisherman, Head</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Smith, Peter</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1891 Census, Azores Island country of birth,, 58, Female Kenick?, 35.</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Peter 16, Thoma 14, John 6, ? 2.</div><div lang="en-US">Peter, Fisherman, Catholic, Place of Birth of Mother, Azores Island.</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td width="294"><div lang="en-US">Gonsalves, Joseph</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1891 Census (p. 31)</div><div lang="en-US">35 years old</div></td> </tr>
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</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1881 Census, Victoria #190, E Esquimalt</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Page 1, Henry Edwood? 67, Portugal, Trader, Christian Sect</div><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Elvira Contente?, Fayal, Baptist</div><div lang="en-US">Children (Ann 20, Eliza 16, George 14, James 12) All born in BC</div></td> </tr>
<tr valign="TOP"> <td height="134" width="294"><div lang="en-US">Searle, Sophia</div></td> <td width="316"><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">1901 Census</div><div lang="en-US">Born 17? 1821, 80 yrs old, Born in Portugal, migrated 1848, female, mothers? No occupation stated, Living with Australian Family</div></td> </tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Bittancourt family-Saltspring Island Archives</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">In May of 1917, Estalon Joze Bittancourt (Bettencourt) died in his home at Vesuvius Bay on Salt Spring Island, B.C. He had lived on the island for nearly 60 years. An obituary in a local newspaper described him as one of the most prominent residents of the island with large real estate holdings and a wide circle of friends, not only on the island, but also throughout British Columbia.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">Estalon, also known as Estalno, Bittancourt was 17 years old when he swam ashore at Royal Roads on Vancouver Island. He had stowed away from Sao Miguel, Azores, on a sailing ship bound for the goldfields of Australia. He did not stay long and soon set sail for greener pastures. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">Salt Spring Island, at 120 square miles, is the largest of the Gulf Islands. It did not have any permanent settlements, although nearby Indians fished and hunted there. It was a paradise of 200-foot tall trees teeming with wildlife. In 1857 and 1858 a small number of Blacks settled there. In 1859 Governor Douglas permitted 29 people to pre-empt land with no down payment. The small colony soon consisted of Indians, Blacks, Hawaiians, and Caucasians. By 1895 an informal survey counted 22 Portuguese.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">Estalno and his brother, Emmanuel Antoine, were among the first settlers. After jumping ship, Estalno bought a sloop to carry freight. A fierce gale soon destroyed it but Estalno, a powerful swimmer, managed to save himself. Soon after he met John Norton (another Portuguese from Flores Island in the Azores) who persuaded him to move from Victoria to Salt Spring.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">It did not take long before the enterprising Estalno established himself at Vesuvius Bay at the north end of the Island. He built a large house, which became Vesuvius Bay lodge. He operated a store and post office. He operated sandstone quarries, mined coal, farmed and built several fine houses. At one time, the family operated three sloops carrying stone to Victoria and Esquimalt for the dry docks, Empress Hotel causeway and several churches in Victoria. There were 26 East Indians working the quarry by the turn of the century. The quarry’s stone even made its way to the U.S. Federal Mint in San Francisco.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">Estalno married Mary Katherine Paul. The 1881 census describes her origin as African. They had five boys and six girls. They were a religious family. Their home included a private chapel, in which pioneer Catholic priest Rev. Fr. Dunkel held monthly services. Dunkel had been rescued, by Estalon, from his capsized dug out canoe. About 1888 he built the “Ark,” a chapel still standing in 1998. In 1885 he helped build St. Paul’s church at Fulford Harbour. His son Joseph, became an oblate father at St. Peter’s college in New Westminster.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">Estalno’s brother, Emmanuel Antoine, born in 1845, was also an early settler on Salt Spring but vanishes after the 1881 census in which he is described as an “ordinary seaman.” He married Mary Elen from Ontario. They had five sons. Abraham Reid Bittancourt stayed on the Island. He was a master craftsman who built some of the finest buildings on the island. Today’s museum and archives are located in Bittancourt House. Abraham also operated a store but sold it around 1910 to enter the customs service with his boat under charter to the Federal government. During the thirties he chased many a rum smuggler with his boat, the “Winamac.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Bittancourts were one of the most prominent and wealthiest families on the island. Bittancourt Road is named after the family. Norton Road is named after their compatriot John Norton.<img src="http://saltspringarchives.com/ckc/images/031.jpg" /><br />
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