Kanaka tIlIXEm khapa anqEti Clark County

[Jon Burpee]

According to Hudson's Bay Company records for 1845,
roughly 40-50% of the Fort Vancouver/Columbia
Department employees were Kanaka.  It was somewhat of
a surprising cultural feature for many of the American
immigrants who arrived over the Oregon Trail.
According to the writings of Company officials the
Islanders were hard workers who were trusty for any
job dealing with water.  Bateau crews, express (canoe)
men, and sailors on the Company's six ships that
traded up and down the Pacific coast.  Also, the
majority of the workers in the Fort Vancouver saw mill
were from Hawaii.




Mike Cleven <ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM> wrote:
> David Robertson wrote:
> >
> > Qhata mEsayka?
> >
> > A small list of people who were born in the
> "Sandwich Islands" and who
> > were counted in the 1850 and 1860 censuses of
> Clark Co., Oregon Territory
> > (now Washington State, around Vancouver):
> >
> > Dick Owyhee, 32 years of age
> > Tearbenard Owyhee, 30
> > Joseph Kanaka, 25
> > Henry Honolula, 25
> > John Kaui
> > James Kaui
> > Muttou Kaui
> > James Molaly
> > [there were quite a few others, perhaps 10 percent
> of the population at
> > the HBC fort]
> >
> > occupations:  "laborer", "cook", "steward", wife
> of "farmer"
>
> I'll forward this to some of the people I know from
> the
> kanakamaolie-allies list to see what genealogical
> records might turn
> up....
>
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