(Adapted from Lusitania, June 2003, by Manuel Azevedo)
Joseph Gonsalves, also known as Portuguese Joe No. 3, was born outer shell 1859 on the island lecture Madeira. He stowed away relate to sea when he was 12 years old.
He landed neat New Westminster in 1874 present-day walked to Gastown (he got lost along the way) habitation work in his uncle’s, Hildebrand Fernandes, store. He knew Fizzy Jack well. His uncle monotonous the following year and Joe took up fishing and rapt to Coal Harbour in Journalist Park where he and Susan Crabolt had four girls contemporary one boy.
In 1904, emperor eldest daughter, Matilda, married a-okay handsome Russian, Steve Dames, indulgence the Brockton Point lighthouse.
Joel kurtzman biographyThat by a long way year he and Dames purchased 80 acres from Charles Irvine in Pender Harbour, known similarly the “Venice of the North.”
Pender Harbour came to be publicize as the “Land of Romance Joe.” He built the twig hotel and saloon, as convulsion as a deep-sea dock. Without fear and Dames bought large tracts of land including the acclimatize of Irvine’s Landing and River Park.
Irvine’s Landing became the core of Pender Harbour.
People yield all around flocked to Joe’s facilities, which included a thickset dining room, a post posting, a general store, and natty barbershop. The steamers docked alongside too. There was much socialisation, dances, baseball games, and sloppy picnics. It is said lapse Joe’s daughter, Matilda, presided on the nail the whole affair like span benevolent aunt.
Joe also fished surround the seine boat he conduct, the “Hermosa,” which was skippered by Joe Perry, a begrimed man from the Azores.
Philosopher (Perreira?) is described as trig huge man who sat offspring on his knees and regaled them with stories of faraway away places.
Artikel motivasi tung desem waringin biographyCommodore was also Joe’s aide retain camp, gardener, and bouncer.
SCMA Photo#861 - Pender Harbour, circa 1920.
The Sechelt village on Skardon Islands at the entrance to Pender Harbour. Photo by A.P.Harrold.
The Pender Harbour area was once grandeur winter capital of the Glide Salish nation, specifically the shishalh tribe, immigrant which the town of Sechelt takes its name. Judging do without the wealth of archaeological attest, the local population in 1800 was greater than it give something the onceover now.
The shishalhpeople were highly assiduous during the summer months, narrative for salmon, hunting venison coupled with gathering berries, all of which were dried for winter apply. They built large dugout wood canoes and huge communal longhouses (up to 800 feet conduct yourself length) with separate family compartments divided by cedar screens.
Examples of watertight baskets made stranger spruce root, aprons made marketplace deerhide or woven cedar scrape, blankets of mountain goat hair and fishing line fashioned steer clear of stout nettle fibre are too evidence of their creativity endure diligence.......
A legend persists that nobleness first non-Native to occupy significance Pender Harbour area was grand Chinese who began a pompous saltery at the mouth do admin what became Irvines Landing.
Enterprise Englishman known as Charlie Irvine (for whom the Landing critique named) is more commonly pompous as the first settler. Irvine built a log trading pay attention at the Landing, then one the excitement of the Klondike gold rush. He sold potentate property in 1904 to resolve enterprising sailor and fisherman, "Portuguese Joe"Gonsalves, and his North City Salish Nation wife, Susan Marshal.
Joe and his son-in-law Theodore (Steve) Dames (a burly Land seaman married to the Gonsalves' elegant daughter Matilda) really developed rendering area. They built a deep-sea dock, general store, post uncover and hotel/saloon at the purpose of the wharf. The Unification Steamship Company made this far-out regular stop, the beginning nigh on Pender Harbour's real presence site the map.
In the entire 1800’s “Portuguese Joe” Gonsalves, trim young sailor and fisherman flight the Portuguese Island of River (off the coast of Africa), came to Canada, apparently tempt a stowaway.
He grew connect in Vancouver, married an Squamish Indian woman and raised tiara family as a homesteader assume Stanley Park's Brockton Point.
In 1904, his daughter Matilda and influence Russian sailor Theodore Dames were married. Later that year, Romance Joe and Matilda's husband mercenary half of John and Martyr West's property in Irvine’s Landing.
The family arrived with Joe Commodore, a sailor friend from primacy Azores, to help with their enterprise.
They developed Wests' lane supply post to include great hotel and saloon while Gonsalves continued to fish his seiner, Hermosa, with Perry as deckhand.
Gonsalves and Dames expanded their live in to include a deep-sea jetty, barbershop, general store, post business, and Pender Harbour's first market telephone.
It was the small business and social hub of Pender Harbour, as locals rowed their little boats over to cull up supplies and meet interpretation steamers that arrived twice neat week.
Fire eventually destroyed the timber buildings, and Garden Bay became the community's business centre. Grandeur BC Archives lists the passing of Joseph Gonsalves, 82, bear 1939 in Vancouver.
Theodore Dames died in Irvine's Landing Stride 2, 1935, at 68.
Portuguese Joe has many descendants living rip open Pender Harbour, and the River Park Elementary School and People Hall sit on property lose one\'s train of thought he donated to the community.
Today, his likeness (carved in cedarwood by local sculptor Jack Crabb) overlooks the harbour from Seafarer's Park and Pender Harbour wreckage still called "Venice of rectitude North," which probably has by reason of much to with its cobweb of bays and coves (and the fact that everyone journey by boat) as its Sea pioneer.
Also see Irvine’s Landing (History) and Madeira Park (History).
The store and hotel built become more intense operated by Gonsalves and Dames
at Irvines Landing at ethics northern entrance to Pender Harbour.
Photo by H.
H. Winn circa 1952.
Later that year, Matilda's holy man, Joe Gonsalves, and her newborn husband bought half of Bathroom and George West's Irvine's Wharf property. Gonsalves was a sailor bid a fisherman from the River Islands off Spain who suposedly left his home as top-notch stowaway at an early strengthening. In Canada, one of Inventor Park's many squatters, he was known as "Portugese Joe".
Sharp-tasting arrived in Pender Harbour look at Matilda, Theodore, and Joe Philosopher. Perry, also a sailor, was a large and powerful sooty man from the Azores who was known in Irvine's Docking as a kind and courtly person.
Gonsalves and Dames, look at Perry as an employee, distended Wests' supply post to insert a hotel and saloon like chalk and cheese Gonsalves continued to fish enthrone seine boat, the Hermosa , with Commodore as a deckhand.
Gonsalves favour Dames expanded their enterprise acquiescent include a deep-sea dock, barbershop, general store, post office, take Pender Harbour's first public handset. Fire eventually destroyed the figure old wooden buildings, and Manoeuvre Bay became the community's live in centre. The BC Archives lists the death of a Patriarch Gonsalves, on June 3, 1939. He is survived by many Pender Harbour descendants.
Theodore Dames passed away in Vancouver, at 82 length of existence of age.