Kamano Island

Kamano Island (50˚34'00" 126˚30'00" Off E end of Harbledown I, N of W end of Johnstone Str). George Kamano (c 1835–1918), of Hawaiian descent, worked for the HBC at Ft Rupert, 1854–69, and then became the first non-aboriginal person to carve a homestead out of the forests of Harbledown I (qv). Earlier he had helped build Harbledown’s Roman Catholic mission of St Michael’s, supervised by Fr Leon Fouquet. When the Oblates left in 1874, George and his Kwakwaka’wakw wife, Pauline...

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