Kanaka Bluff

Kanaka Bluff (48˚44'00" 123˚23'00" W side of Portland I, SE of Saltspring I, Gulf Is). William Naukana (1813–1909) was one of the Hawaiian islanders (or Kanakas, a Polynesian word meaning “human beings”) brought to BC in the 1830s and ’40s to work for the HBC. Many of these immigrants married First Nation women and remained in BC, and small Kanaka communities were formed, especially near Vancouver and Victoria, and on Saltspring I. Naukana joined the HBC in 1845 and was employed at...

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