Hawaiian men roasting a pig for a luau

ID: 78 ~ Source: Historic Photographs of Old Hawai`i (1820's to 1940's) Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawaiians_roasting_pig_for_luau,_c._1890.jpg
Accessed on November 26, 2018 ~ Date: 1890

This file appears in: "Kanakas" settlers of the San Juan Islands

Image of what a pig roasting for a Hawaiian luau could have looked like in the 19th century on the San Juan Islands

This file appears in: "Kanakas" settlers of the San Juan Islands

"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…