人物プロフィール

Enos, John Richmond

1834–1921

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伝記

He was originally named as Joao Ignacio d'Alamada.

He went to sea at a young age.

He is said to have jumped ship in Boston c1852.

He travelled to California in search of gold but took a job there - eventually travelling to Yale in 1858.

He changed his name to one which people had less difficulty pronouncing. In Esquimalt he joined the crew of a coal schooner.

He then moved to Nanaimo to square timbers for the HBC.

In 1862 he travelled to the Cariboo in search of gold but he arrived too late - and returned to Nanaimo.

He pre-empted land in 1862 in the Nanoose District as the Notch Hill Ranch.

In 1866 he married Teresa Elisia a member of the Songhees in Victoria.

He sold it in 1889 to Ettrick F. Dickinson.

命名された地物

Enos Creek (BC), Enos Lake (BC)

参考文献

Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)

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