| HAWAIIANS IN THE FUR TRADE TIMELINE
1811 - 24 Hawaiians brought to the Northwest Coast by the ship the
Tonquin to work at Astoria
- 12 Hawaiians killed in massacre on the Tonquin
1812 - 5 Hawaiians brought to Astoria on the New Hazard
1813 - 12 Hawaiians brought on the Beaver to the Northwest Coast
1814 - 32 Hawaiians returned to Hawaii on the ship the Albatross
1816 - 18 Hawaiians ran off with Jacob for California
1817 - Ship the Columbia brought 60 Hawaiians to Fort George
1818 - 29 Hawaiians at Fort George
1820 - Three Hawaiians killed by Indians on McKenzie expedition
1831 - Five Hawaiians returned from Fort Vancouver to Hawaii
1834 - 12 Hawaiians desert at WallaWalla
1835 - John Work mentions the death of John Horapapa
1838 - Whitman secured Joseph Maki and his wife to help on the
Northwest Coast
1839 - Sir James Douglas, chief factor at Ft. Vancouver, lists about 38
Hawaiians working for the Hudson's Bay Company
1840 - Agreement between Gov. Kekuanaoa and Mr. Pelly to take 60 men to
Columbia River
1842 - 11 Hawaiians were working on the farm at Fort Langley
- Bolduc claims there are 500 Hawaiians on the Northwest Coast
1844 - "Kanaka William" comes to Northwest to teach the
Gospel to Hawaiians there
- Between five and six hundred Polynesians on American Whaling ships,
most are Hawaiians
1846 - Hawaiian and Indians are not counted on first census of Oregon
Territory
1847 - Paul Kane, artist, paints a picture of Hawaiian, Old Cox, at Ft.
Vancouver
1848 - Great mortality among Hawaiians and Indians at Ft. Vancouver
from dysentery to measles
1850 - 8 Hawaiians were refused passage home after service expired
- 21 Hawaiians on Clark County Census
1853 - Wave of Hawaiian Baptisms at Ft. Vancouver due to death by
illness
1860 - Hawaiians could not become citizens when Washington became a
state
- Sixteen Hawaiians on the Clark County Census
1868 - "Kanaka Pete" murders in Victoria
1872 - Most Hawaiians had left San Juan Island and moved to Victoria,
Saltspring and Portland Islands
1873 - Joseph Nuana ("Kanaka Joe") murders take place
1878 - In the Census for Jefferson County, Washington, there are
fifteen Hawaiians listed
1886 - Hotel de Haro (Roche Harbor) built around a sturdy log bunkhouse
built by Hudson's Bay Company for Hawaiian sheepherders on the Island
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