1925: BC pioneers banquet
Chinook was there!
The cartoon accompanying the article
Past Glimpsed as B.C. Native Sons Banquet Pioneers
Tributes Are Paid by “Marks of Appreciation.”
YOUTHS OF 80 IN ATTENDANCE
Happy Toasts — Some Make Reply in Chinook.
— from the Vancouver (BC) Province, Sat, May 9, 1925
The page image available to me doesn’t resolve terribly well beyond the headline level, but I can see that “Mr. M. Wales of Langford, who came to British Columbia in 1852 [?], briefly expressed his pleasure at being present, opening his remarks in Chinook.”
That’s a very early Settler indeed, for BC. Judging from the date (if I’m reading it right), I’d think he either came to Fort Victoria or was employed in a BC interior fur fort.
My 3x grandparents Ross, Charles and Isabella Mainville,Couchiching FN, Anishinaabe were here in 1823 at Kamloops I believe. They had their 3rd son Charles Jr in 1831 at Ft St James. Their fourth son, my gg grandfather, Alexander, was born in Ft Connolly, 1836. They lived in a tent, with 9 children, while Charles supervised the building Ft Victoria in 1843. They were the first Métis family in Ft Victoria. He spoke,English, French/Michif, Carrier, Chinook. She spoke French,Ashinaabemauwin, Chinook, very little English.
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The youngest daughter of Charles and Isabella Ross, b. 1842 San Juan Island, my gg aunt.
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https://www.djrichardson.ca/in-her-own-footsteps#:~:text=In%20Her%20Own%20Footsteps%20is,trade%20to%20a%20young%20province My gg aunt
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Thank you so much (hayu masi) for sharing these parts of your family history, Fern!
Dave R.
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