William Naukana ca. 1870

ID: 70 ~ Source: Hawaiian Journal of History after page XXX of volume 29, 1995, article New Land, New Lives: Hawaiian Settlement in British Columbia by Jean Barman. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/429 ~ Date: 1870

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Professional photo of William Naukan ca. 1870

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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…