Madeira Park

Madeira Park (49˚37'00" 124˚01'00" SE side of Pender Hbr, E side of Malaspina Str, NW of Vancouver). Named after his homeland by early Pender Hbr settler Joe Gonsalves (1857–1939), who in 1904 bought the hotel and store at Irvine’s Landing that Charles Irvine had originally developed. Together with his son-in-law, a Russian seaman named Theodore Dames, “Portuguese Joe,” as he was known, built a much larger hotel and saloon at the landing and became a well-regarded resident of the...

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