Silva Bay

Silva Bay (49˚09'00" 123˚42'00" E end of Gabriola I, Gulf Is). John Silva (c 1837–1929), a native of Portugal, came to Victoria in 1854 as a seaman and jumped ship there. He ran a fruit and vegetable store in the city for a few years and married Marelee Holowaat (c 1858–1926), a young Lyackson First Nation woman from Valdes I, who was working for a Victoria family and went by the name of Louisa. In 1873 the Silva family moved to a land pre-emption at Village Bay on Mayne I, then moved...

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