Mary Jane "Kanaugh" Brown and daughters


This file appears in: 1. Indigenous Peoples of Sx’wálech (Lopez Island)

K-naugh (Conna) "Mary Jane" Brown (center) a Tsimshian woman from Metlakatla, and her eldest daughters Margaret "Maggie" (left) and Ella (right). In 1869, Mary Jane K-naugh and her husband, Charles Brown, came to Lopez with five daughters, and homesteaded together on Port Stanley Road, where Horse Drawn Farm now is. Mary Jane K-naugh often acted as a liaison between Indigenous Peoples in the San Juan Islands and early white settlers. She and Charles had 10 children, many of whom stayed on Lopez and were important members of the community. To this day, some of their descendants continue to reside on Island.


This file appears in: 1. Indigenous Peoples of Sx’wálech (Lopez Island)