BROCKTON POINT 1906, Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC: PORTUGUESE JOE SILVEY'S HOUSE AND OTHERS.
 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.
 Peter Smith's daughter and perhaps his wife  is buried at Brockton Point which is an an

cient aboriginal cemetery. It also contains the remains of Chinese pioneers and Kanaka natives.
By 1874 Joe Silvey had given his house to Joe Goncalves and Tomkins Brew was living in Fernandes' house.

Painting by Edgar Bloomfield, 1906, Vancouver City archives collection

Brockton Point 1886, Stanley Park
- 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.