Joseph and Annie Morais

He owned and operated a hotel, restaurant and miners exchange in 1861 in Victoria. Cape Verdean? Madeira?

DOB 1827 Census 1891 - Married to Annie(Born in Capetown) 2 children John and Louis Occupation – Servent
Morais, Annie	Listed as Head October 17, 1866, South Africa, George son DOB Jan 31 1881, Louis son DOB Feb 13 1886, Annie daughter July 31 1882.

Joe Perry
(from fernandocandido)

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.

JOE FLORES
(from fernandocandido)

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

He settled in the Fraser Valley. http://genforum.genealogy.com/bettencourt/messages/77.html

Early Portuguese Immigrants in British Columbia

http://www.fernandocandido.com/portcanada/bcportuguese/bcportuguese.html

Abraham Reid Bittancourt
Emmanuel Bittancourt
Estalon Bittancourt
Joe Fernandez
Joe Flores
Joe Goncalves
Joe Lewis
Joseph MoraisDelarvo Norton 
John Norton
Joe Perry
Joe Silvey
Peter Smith

Quebec Pioneers

(adapted from Lusitania.ca, by Manuel Azevedo)

Esther Brandeau-Canada’s first Jewess?*

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. 

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!

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.

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, “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.”

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

*http://ladina.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-marrana-new-france-quebec-canada.html

**http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/collecting/stamps/archives/2003/2003_jun_pedro.jsf

Portuguese Place names in Canada



(Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, BC)

Portuguese Place Names in Canada
by Manuel Azevedo

Portuguese people have been coming to Canada for centuries. In 2003 Canada Post issued a commemorative stamp celebrating the 300^th 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^th 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.

The bulk of present day Portuguese Canadians derive from post 1950’s immigration.  However, 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 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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

   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.

    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 Iphigenia Nubian 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.

   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.



Portugal Cove, Newfoundland



Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia

(painting, Lady in waiting, Snyder Gallery-http://www.snyder-gallery.com/taxonomy/term/80/all

NAMES/DOCUMENTS-a work in progress
(Thanks to Chris Hanna, researcher and Roy Silva)

Name	Documents/Events
Joe Lewis	1858, Victoria,  arrested and released on charges of killing a policeman. He is the first person in BC history to be referred to as Portuguese Joe-likely cape Verdean.
Bittancourt Charles(1) and Theresa(2)
Bittancourt, Emmanuel(3)
Bittencourt, Richard(4) and others
Caro, Antonio(5)
Caros, Marianos	1881 Census 33, Fisherman wife Sarah 28, Born BC, NA Indian District 190-B- Johnston St. Ward, Page 6 entry 10
Castro, Joseph	60 yrs old, Died May 31 1876, Packer
Castro, Maria	Married Louis Vigelius in 1874-7-4 Victoria
Castro, Louis	Marries Edith Murphy 1885-1-12 Kin Colith
Castro, Joseph	Marries Dorothy Wetsue 1913-12-25 Vancouver
DaCosta, George N(6)	57, died 1918 in Vancouver
DeCosta, Leuis Charles(7)	Married to Kerr, Florence Maud(8), 1905 Esquimalt.
DeCosta, Margaret(9)	Married Wellington, Edward(10), in 1874 in Victoria
Demacedo, Joachim Anthony(11)	Died 81 yrs old, 1922 Victoria
Delgardo, Francis Joaquim(12)	Lived on Cook street
Fernandez, Geregory(13)
Ferreira, Ursula Agnus(14)	Married to Hurst, John(15), 1915
Fernandes, Manuel V(16)
Fernandes, Marselino(17)	Aged 1 died 1911 in Vancouver
Fernandez, Antonio(18)	Died, 64, in 1912 in Vancouver
Fernandez, Georgiana(19)	Female, 60, died in 1949 in Nanaimo
Antoni, Fernando(20)	Male, 78, died in 1914 in Victoria
Freis, Emil(21)	Male, 75, died in 1975 in Vancouver
Flores, Joseph(22)	Married in 1886 in Kamloops
Flores, Pedro(23)	49, 1901, North Vancouver
Flores, Josie(24)	Male, 60, 1876, Ashcroft
Flores, Benson(25)	81, 1929, Vnacouver
Floris, Frank(26)	0, 1901, Bowen Island
Floris, Pedro(27)	0, 1901, Bowen Island
Flores, Peter(28)	1901, Marriage, Vancouver
Flores, Emma(29)	Married Fraser, Willie(30), 1921 Kamloops
Frir, ?(31)	Born in Lisbon, Portugal.
Gonzalves(32) (Madeira)	Gregory Fernandez nephew came to Gastown in 1874- 15 yes old.
Gonzalves, Aurelio(33)	35, 1916, Vancouver
Gonsalves, Joseph(34)
Gonsalves, Joseph(35)	Death Certificate – DOB January 9 1857, Death June 3, 1939 (82) – In Province 65 yrs - Noted Hotel Keeper, General Merchant.
Baby Goncalves(36)	DOB June 22, 1911 Brocton Point Died 3 days old
Gonsalves, Albert Joseph(37)	Death January 17, 1981in Kamloops. DOB March 28, 1915 Father – Alfred Gonsalves(38)
Gonsalves, Matilda(39)	DOB May 9, 1984 at Brocton Point Father – DOB 1854 Madeira
Goncalves, Armenia(40)	DOB Dec 17, 1888 Brocton Point Father – 31 years old
Gonsalves, Matilda(41)	Marriage to Theodore Dames(42) – A Russian Age 30 Matilda was 20 – At Brocton Point Lighthouse Married on Sept 1 1904.
Charos, -(43)	37, 1891 Census Speculators Agent? Born in US – Father from Portugal Married to Rebecca(44), 27 (Born BC) (Father Born Germany – Mother US), Children Clara(45), 7( Born US), Judith(46) (Born US)
Sopey, Joseph(47)	1891 Census Victoria Male 34 from Portugal - Catholic - Masons Labourer
Limburg, (48)	DOB Dec 17 1860
Moraes, Joseph(49)	DOB 1827 Census 1891 - Married to Annie(Born in Capetown) 2 children John and Louis Occupation – Servent
Morais, Annie	Listed as Head October 17, 1866, South Africa, George son DOB Jan 31 1881, Louis son DOB Feb 13 1886, Annie daughter July 31 1882.
Moraes, Baby	Male – 1908 Victoria 1947 Victoria
Morais, Edward	Age 0 died Feb 18, 1879, Victoria
Moraes, George, John Edward, Joseph H, Louis	1901 – 1908 Various Marriages
Moraes, Anna Belmore, Isabelle Jane, Isabelle, Theresa Maria	Roughly 1908 Marriage 1893 – Theresa Moraes m Charles F Bittancourt
Montero, Joseph Juan?	1883 married to Anne Hall 1828 – 1886 Children – Georgette(1849) Joseph, Joseph Manuel (1855 – 1928), Seraphina (1862 – 1930), Francisco S. (1864 – 1921), Edward R. (1869 – 1917), Anna Elizabeth, Jose (1874 –1928)
	Joseph, African, a cook, in from Cape Verde. 1881 Census Jet is noted as a servant. Wife show as American and Methodist Georgette(US) Anna (US) Edward (US) Frank (BC) Seraphina (BC) Origin Shown as African
	Religion for Joseph Catholic/Methodist? Wife Anna is Metodist
Manuella, J	Male! Portugal 1891 Census? 28 years old.
Norton, John	1829 – 1911 (First Wife Louise m 1866) (2nd Wife Annie Robinson (1856 –1903) m. 1873 Saltspring) Born in Flores 1829 Died in Saltspring 1911 Came to BC in 1859 4 children w/ Lousie (Emmanuel, John, William and Elizabeth) 9 Children w/ Annie( Dorothy Marian(1879), Walter Newton(1880), Albert A. (1882), Marian Elsie E. (1886), Robert P. (1889), Maude Beatrice (1891), Pearl V. (1893), Grace (1896), Joseph (1899)
Norton, Everett Harold	1898 – 1942 Son of John Norton Jr. John Joseph Norton and Margaret Kiarney. John Joseph born in Saltspring 1872
Norton, John	Marriage Certificate indicates John Norton born in the Azores. Marriage to Annie Robinson Dec 8 1873, Her Religion indicated as Wesleyan Methodist.
Norton, John	Death Certificate, 88, indicates he was a farmer from Flores island. Informant Walter Norton, Son of the Deceased, October 1 1911, Roman Catholic
Norton and Bittancourt	Bittancourt is noted as storekeeper
Norton,	1891 Census , 67 yrs old, Wife Anneal, Born in W.S. Shows fathers place of birth as Portugal and Mother, Ireland Religion - ?
Norton, John Joseph	Marriage Certificate of Marriage Margaret Lena Kairney of San Juan Island. Both Catholic
Joseph and Kate Quadros
	1891 Census, Joseph Quadra, 50, male, from Portugal, Catholic, Trader. Wife, Kate, 25
	Naturalization of Joseph Quadra, March 1 1881, In BC at least since 1878.
	Backing page 1881 Quadros
Silva, John	(1843?) 1837 – 1929 married to Louisa (1856 – 1926) 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)
Silvey, Domingo	Listed as Domingo Silver, married to Josephine Crocker
Silver, John	Married Melanie Hoigwaat, 1881, Victoria
Silver, Joseph	Married Minnie Beul, 1904 Cooper Island
Jesse and Rose Silver?	Buried 1917 1916 respectively in Vancouver.
Clara Minnie Silvey	Married to Greig Anthony Bell, 1921, Ladysmith 1-19
Dora Silvey	Married Harry Perry, 1909, Vancouver 10-23
Elizabeth Silvey	Married James Walker, 1883, July 15 Nanaimo
Margaritte Silvey	Married Howard Henry Hill, 1914 Vancouver 4-3
Silva, Alexander	Dies 1963 Alert Bay
	Alexis Evyonne Silva, Baby, 1949, 8-29, North Vancouver Alfred Theodore Silva, 81, 1966, 1-7 Matsqui Antone Silva, 24, 1890, 1-8 Vancouver Baby Silva, 0, 1925 10-24 Nanaimo Baby Silva, 0, 1923, 1-6 N Van Elizabeth Silvey, 76, 1964 12-10 N Van Francis Silva, baby, 1922 4-15 Nanaimo Manny Silva, 20, 1922, 3-14 Mary Jane Silva, 24, 1925 10-28 Nanaimo
Silver, Rose Isabella	Marries John Turti, 1909, 6-16 Victoria
Silvey, Agnus, Claris, Doris, Florence, Margaret, Elisabeth, Margarite	Elisabeth Sylvia m. James Walker, 1883 Nanaimo, Interesting name listed as Sylvia.
	John Silva m. Emily Ritter, 1916, 7-15 N. Van.
Silvey, John Manuel, Manuel Joseph	Joseph Silvy m. Lucy Kwatlemut, 1872, 9-20, New West.
Silva	Index of Deaths
William Silva	23, died 1907, 12-1, Gabriola Island
Silva, Manuel	48, 1954, 6-9 N Van
Silva, Louis	50, 1946, 6-27, Port Alberni
Silva, Margarite Pearl	DOB 1896 1-19, New West
Silva, John	Death Certificate, Died, July 10, 1929, Widower, DOB 1837, In the province of Nears
Silva, John	1881 Census Family, Wife Indian Children Portuguese Portuguese Fisherman from Azores, Catholic, 35 years old.
Silva, John	Naturalization of John Silva, of Main Island, June 1876.
Silva, John	Signed own name with accent on the a, clear concise penmanship, For residence, June 27, 1876. Signed twice on document both times with accent on a.
Silva, John	1901 Census Indicates year of immigration to Canada as 1866, and naturalization as 1876 Indicating Farmer, John Portuguese, Maryanne as Indian,
Silva, John	1891 Census Farmer
Silva, Louisa	Death Certificate, Gabriola Island, June 3, 1926, indicating racial origin as Indian, Married, DOB Unknown
Silva, Joseph	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. Clergyman signs as A. Silva White
Silver, John	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 Children (John F jr.(DOB April 25, 1886, BC), Rose(DOB 1887, BC), Henry(August 4 1890, BC)
D’Silvea, William	DOB March 3 1867, Naturalized 1896, Portuguese, Presbyterian. Wife Ellen(DOB May 30, 1862, 48, New Brunswick, Irish) Children (Birtham(June 15 1880, England, 1896 Portuguese), Mabe(October 21, 1886, US), William (January 16 1890, US), Charles S(October 18, 1891, US)
Silvey, Joseph	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.
Silvy, Joseph	Lease request of 1868 in Stanley Park
	Rejection dated May 19, 1868, Request made May 15
	Map 2 of George Turner, 1874, Main Island, Large Plot noted under his name off Ellich Bay
Silvy, Joseph	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
	Death Certificate district of Nanaimo, Number 2282, January 171902 Reed Island 66 yrs old. Was actually 72? Roman Catholic
Silvey, Manuel	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. Preist Father W Lemmens, Married at Chapel of Industrial School on Cooper Island
	Death Certificate of Josephine Anderson Shows Father as Joseph Sylva, Resides Simoon Sound, Buried at Mountain view, March 29, 1930
	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.
Elizabeth Walker	Death Certificate, DOB July 9 1872. Pager Mathews estimated 1868? Father noted as Joseph Silvey of Portugal
Silva, Joseph	1881 Census, Male, 50, Portugal, Fisherman, married to Mary, 26, BC Children (Elizabeth 18, Jakarta 14, Dominic 11, Joseph 7, Estalan 5, Indicated as Portuguese
	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. Occupation Fisherman & Farmer
	1901 Census Reid Island, Vancouver Electoral District ? Domingo Silvey wife Josephine, Children Joseph 3, John 2
	Entry 30 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
Souza, John	Death March 28, 1905, Nanaimo Hospital, 92, Fisherman, Indicating born in Italy, Catholic
Souza, John	Medical Death Certificate, Died of Senility, March 28, 1905
Suza, John	Census 1891, Vancouver District #3, 78 yrs old, Portuguese, Catholic, Fisherman, appears to be living alone
Silver, John	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. Children (John 5, Rosa 3, Henry 8/12) all born in BC. Roman Catholic
Smith, Peter	DOB June 15, 1833 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. 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.
Smith, Peter	Death Certificate, indicating Fisherman from Portugal, Cancer of the Pyloris for 6 months, Bill Wilde was physician, Religion Methodist, Registrar Abbot
Smith, Maria	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
	1901 Census District #1 Burrard, Enumeration April 29 1901. Shows Peter Smith, Male, born 1833, daughter Maria 1888, Reta 1891, Maria and Reta are indicated as Siwaash, Live in Sam King. Roomer 54, born 1867, Chinese, Came to Canada 1890, In bracket page 212, Joseph Gonsalves.
Enoch, Robert	31, Born 1870 Portugal, 1893 1897 Portuguese Roman Catholic, Fisherman, Head
Smith, Peter	1891 Census, Azores Island country of birth,, 58, Female Kenick?, 35. Peter 16, Thoma 14, John 6, ? 2. Peter, Fisherman, Catholic, Place of Birth of Mother, Azores Island.
Gonsalves, Joseph	1891 Census (p. 31) 35 years old
	1881 Census, Victoria #190, E Esquimalt Page 1, Henry Edwood? 67, Portugal, Trader, Christian Sect Elvira Contente?, Fayal, Baptist Children (Ann 20, Eliza 16, George 14, James 12) All born in BC
Searle, Sophia	1901 Census Born 17? 1821, 80 yrs old, Born in Portugal, migrated 1848, female, mothers? No occupation stated, Living with Australian Family