William Naukana's Headstone at St Paul's Catholic Church

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William Naukana's Headstone at St Paul's Catholic Church

Photo of William Naukana's gravesite and headstone at St. Paul's Catholic Church with a photo of William Naukana hanging from it.

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"Kanakas" settlers of the San Juan Islands – How Hudson Bay Company influenced resettlement of the San Juan Island by Native Hawaiians

By Jacob Adamson

During the first half of the 1800s, the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) expanded their fur-trading empire establishing forts, farms, and warehouses in the Pacific Northwest. At this time the HBC shipping routes extended throughout the British empire, and…