Julia Naukana and her husband, George Shepard

ID: 105 ~ Source: Posted on Wikimedia Commons. Published in Hawaiian Journal of History page XXX of volume 29, 1995, article New Land, New Lives: Hawaiian Settlement in British Columbia by Jean Barman. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/429. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julia_Naukana_with_husband_George_Shepard.jpg ~ Creator: Photo courtesy of Rosemary Tahouney Unger

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Daughter of William Naukana Julia is standing behind her husband, George Shepard

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"Kanakas" settlers of the San Juan Islands – How Hudson Bay Company influenced resettlement of the San Juan Island by Native Hawaiians

By Jacob Adamson

During the first half of the 1800s, the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) expanded their fur-trading empire establishing forts, farms, and warehouses in the Pacific Northwest. At this time the HBC shipping routes extended throughout the British empire, and…