The audio is an edited Oral Interview with an introduction by Jacob Adamson, exerts are from the oral interview of Laura Roland talking about her husbands great, great grandfather William Nuakana, the interview takes place on Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada

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In this interview, Ms. Roland talks about how and why William Nuakana would have left Hawaii at a young age to come and live and work on San Juan Island, and then later she talks again about why her husbands great, great, great grandfather left the San Juan Islands

It seems like Governor Douglas sent a ship to Hawaii and uh recruited or looked for young men who were willing to come up to this land because they were such good mariners good navigators and he wanted those ships on the coast here... I can't tell you any other reason he was willing to come he must have been in his early twenties at that time and looking for adventure I suppose

After it was allotted to the united states, he didn't want to live under their governmental system… He wanted to be in the monarchy which he had been used to as a child, he had been raised with kings and queens of Hawaii, and he wanted to remain that way, and the fooks on the island the Hawaiian islands were very friendly with Queen Victoria and traveled back and forth from the Hawaiian Islands to England to visit the Queen... yea, and so he… he was close to the monarchy, and he wanted to stay that way, so he moved back to Canada to Portland Island.