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JOSEPH GONSALVES, aka as Portuguese Joe (No. 3)
(Adapted from Lusitania, June 2003, by Manuel Azevedo)
Joseph Gonsalves, also known as Portuguese Joe No. 3, was born in 1859 on the island of Madeira.
Portuguese joe biography
He stowed away to sea when he was 12 years old. He landed in New Westminster in 1874 and walked to Gastown (he got lost along the way) to work in his uncle’s, Gregory Fernandes, store. He knew Gassy Jack well. His uncle died the following year and Joe took up fishing and moved to Coal Harbour in Stanley Park where he and Susan Crabolt had four girls and one boy.
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In 1904, his eldest daughter, Matilda, married a handsome Russian, Steve Dames, at the Brockton Point lighthouse. That same year he and Dames purchased 80 acres from Charles Irvine in Pender Harbour, known as the “Venice of the North.”
Pender Harbour came to be known as the “Land of Portuguese Joe.” He built the first hotel and saloon, as well as a deep-sea dock.
He and Dames bought large