Glynn-Ward on BC Indian English & CJ

[Mike Cleven]

At 01:26 AM 1/31/99 -0800, David Lewis wrote:
>It could be that the Kanaks ie Hawaiians already had the rancharia
>designation from their previous experiences with Spanish speaking
>immigrants to Hawaii.

Unlikely.  The Kanaka Rancherie was founded only in 1886, while the Kanakas
themselves had been on the coast since the 1780s, often as employees of the
fur companies, and had been residents of Gastown (early Vancouver) since
the first mills were founded in 1867.  They had also not "lived apart" in
old Gastown, and while they'd had their own quarters in or next to fur
company posts, I don't know of any references to these being "rancheries"
(native encampments next to a post might be a rancherie, however; can't
think of any examples).  Kanakas were also prominent within the community
in Victoria and New Westminster; at Fort Langley, long-time HBC employees
lived across the river in Albion in an area still known as Kanaka Creek,
and among the gold bars of the Fraser there is Kanaka Bar.  But nowhere
else than Lost Lagoon was there a "Kanaka Rancherie".........