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Atlantic Islander
05-30-2013, 01:30 AM
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Quem imigra para Vancouver ou esta familiarisado com a comunidade portuguesa em Vancouver ira certamente ouvir de Joe Silvey soa um pouco aportuguesado nao soa? mas e por ser mesmo portugues.
E que no Canada e normal muitas vezes os Antonios chamarem se Tonys ou Joses serem Joes, sendo este um bom espelho parece me, do desejo de assimilacao na cultura canadiana.

Joe Silvey e um individuo que sem sombra de duvida, tem uma vida digna de um romance classico ou de um excelente filme, deixo a idea. Nascido nos acores por volta dos 1840 cedo andou nos altos mares na caca a baleia, a certa altura chega a British Colombia onde decide juntar se na "febre do ouro" que na altura estava no auge.

A relacao e importancia de Joe com Vancouver, atinge o auge na minha opiniao quando ele casa com a filha do chefe Kiapilano (ligado a famosa ponte suspensa de Capilano http://www.capbridge.com/index.php) casando Jeo duas vezes, curiosamente e em alturas diferentes, com mulheres indias. E so como nota, os tempos mudaram realmente nesse aspecto nos casamentos inter culturais na nossa comunidade, sendo Joe um individuo nas suas escolhas amorosas uma pessoa unica. Hoje em dia os portugueses tem maior proximidade com os canadianos do que propriamente com outras comunidades minoritarias, como os chineses, indios ou mesmo as primeiras nacoes.

Joe teve mais tarde dos 2 casamentos 11 filhos, mas e a historia de vida de Joe que mostra tao bem a alma portuguesa e essa constante nessecidade de explorar, experimentar e ir alem, mesmo que o alem esteja a milhares de milhas de distancia, na constante busca de algo melhor ou diferente. Joe Silvey parece me que devera ser dado a conhecido alem fronteiras, porque ele junta se aquele grupo de homens, dos "pequenos herois" que a historia nao conta, e que so um pequeno grupo conhece, mas a historia de vida de Joe vai bem alem dele mesmo na sua universalidade e intemporalidade, talvez seja isso que e ser portugues...esta contante busca...do real ou do ideal, mas sempre, a procura.

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José Silva ("Portuguese Joe") nasceu na Calheta de Nesquim, ilha do Pico a 23 de Abril de 1828 e andou nos altos mares na caça à baleia, chegando em 1852 à Colômbia Britânica, a bordo de um navio baleeiro, onde decide juntar-se à "febre do ouro" que na altura estava no auge. Casou duas vezes com mulheres índias, a primeira, neta do lendário chefe Kiapilano. Protagonizou o primeiro casamento entre um aborígene e um não aborígene em Vancouver.
Após o matrimónio, partiu de canoa rumo a Point Roberts onde José Silva abriu um bar (saloon), construiu a sua própria embarcação e iniciou a indústria de pesca com redes.
Em 1867 tornou-se no primeiro cidadão Luso-canadiano. Viveu em Brockton Point, a actual Stanley Park. Faleceu em Reid Island a 17 de Janeiro de 1902.

As suas aventuras deram origem a um documentário televisivo e ao livro "The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey", de Jean Amit Barman

Vídeo relacionado:


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José Silva (“Portuguese Joe”) was born in Calheta de Nesquim, on Pico Island, on 23 April, 1828, and sailed on the high seas in whale hunting, arriving to British Columbia in 1852, aboard a whaling ship, where he decided to join in the “Gold Rush”, which at the time was in his blood. He married two times with two Aboriginal peoples in Canada ladies. The first was the granddaughter of Joe Capilano (1850–1910), who was a leader of the Squamish, who called him Sa7plek (Sahp-luk). He carried out the first marriage between an aboriginal and a non-aboriginal in Vancouver.

After the marriage, departed from a canoe route to Point Roberts where José Silva opened a pub (saloon), built his own vessel and began a fishing industry with nets.

In 1867, he became the first Luso-Canadian citizen. He lived in Brockton Point, the current Stanley Park. He passed away in Reid Island on 17 January, 1902.

His adventures gave origin to a telly documentary and a book “The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey”, by Jean Barman. (http://www.amazon.com/The-Remarkable-Adventures-Portuguese-Silvey/dp/155017326X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369877366&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Remarkable+Adventures+of+Portuguese+J oe+Silvey)

Source. (http://vancouverportugal.blogspot.pt/2012/06/joe-silvey-o-portugues-pioneiro.html)

Atlantic Islander
05-30-2013, 01:35 AM
Book Description:


British Columbia is known for the colourful pioneers who helped build and shape the character of this weird but wonderful province. And few were as colourful as Portuguese Joe Silvey - a saloon keeper, whaler and pioneer of seine fishing in British Columbia. Born on Pico Island, of Portugal's Azores Islands, sometime between 1830 and 1840, Joseph Silvey began whaling when he was just 12 years old. In 1860, when Silvey came to the BC coast on a whaling schooner, he decided to jump ship to try his hand at gold-mining. From harpooning whales in small open rowboats, to serving up liquor to rambunctious millworkers, to being the first man to have a seine license in BC, Silvey was the Renaissance man of his generation. His friends were many, and included saloon keeper Gassy Jack Deighton for whom Vancouver's Gastown is named, his prestigious grandfather-in-law Chief Kiapilano (of the Capilano Nation) and a remittance man who liked to wear either his wife's clothes or none at all. Although Portuguese Joe and his family prospered - he had 11 children with two wives and his many descendants still populate the BC coast - they also had their share of grief. Joe's first wife Khaltinaht died after a few short years of marriage; his eldest child Elizabeth was later kidnapped and forced to marry against her will; and his sixth child John was murdered in a rowboat while on his way to buy clams. Historian Jean Barman brings to life the story of Portuguese Joe - the romance, the tragedy, and the adventure - with skill, piecing together interviews with Silvey's descendants, archival records and historical photographs to build an intriguing and entertaining portrait of Joseph Silvey, his family, and the time and place in which he lived.

Reviews:


"...Jean Barman has illuminated the history of B.C. in all its violence, racism, diversity and unbridled glory."
-Stephen eaton Hume, Vancouver Sun (Vanvouver Sun )

"My excitement about Portuguese Joe is heightened by its 'holistic' history, and by the kind of reverse snobbery that focuses our attention upon hitherto unknown individuals and families, showing how they fit as one complete tile into the larger mosaic...We seldom hear about these ordinary, non-political people in 'history' yet there would be little hisory without them. In this monograph Barman reminds us that history is the story of individuals, how they come into this world, what they learn, what they do, where they go, how they feed themselves and their families, and their impact upon generations that follow."
-J.M. Bridgeman, Rain Review (The Rain Review of Books )

"The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey concerns a free spirit who, in best 19th-century fashion, invented sequential careers for himself but was often buffeted by larger forces that were at work in the world...Barman's skilled use of hard-come-by facts, anecdotes, and images to restore stories we didn't even know were lost." ---George Fetherling, Georgia Straight (Georgia Straight )


source (http://www.amazon.com/The-Remarkable-Adventures-Portuguese-Silvey/dp/155017326X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369877366&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Remarkable+Adventures+of+Portuguese+J oe+Silvey)

Atlantic Islander
06-20-2013, 09:30 PM
“Portuguese Joe Silvey" de Jean Barman (2004)

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"The Remarkable Adventure of Portuguese Joe Silvey" publicada em 2004 é o primeiro trabalho de Jean Barman abordando a problemática da emigração açoriana para a Colúmbia Britânica.

No prefácio desta obra escreve Manuel A. Azevedo: "Existe um provérbio português que diz que Deus está em todo o lado, mas os portugueses chegaram lá primeiro."

Joe Silvey

Joe Silvey (Silva) foi um dos primeiros pioneiros portugueses a chegar ao Canadá muito antes de 1867, o ano da Confederação à qual a Colúmbia Britânica se juntou em 1871.

A história do picoense Joe Silvey iniciou-se durante a corrida ao ouro de 1858 na Colúmbia Britânica. Estes foram os anos em que a população não nativa cresceu do dia para a noite. As 1000 almas que habitavam a Colúmbia Britânica viram de um momento para o outro o seu lugar "inundado" por sonhadores à procura de riqueza. Em pouco tempo a população somava 20.000 pessoas.

Todavia, o picoense Joe Silvey não encontrou fortuna no ouro mas encontrou uma esposa nativa da localidade que mais tarde ficaria conhecida por Vancouver.

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Matrimónio e fixação em Stanley Park

Silva casou com Khaltinaht, neta do lendário chefe índio Kiapilano. Após o matrimónio, o casal partiu de canoa rumo a Point Roberts onde José Silva abriu um bar (saloon) e se dedicou à pesca. Viveu em Brockton Point, a actual Stanley Park, localidade onde acabaria por encontrar outros companheiros de língua entre eles o baleeiro Peter Smith, Joe Gonsalves, o primeiro polícia de Vancouver, Tomkins Brew.

Todos eles, com excepção de Gonsalves, que permaneceu solteiro - casaram com mulheres aborígenes.

Jean Barman publicou igualmente "Stanley Park’s Secret", uma obra mais abrangente que recorda também as famílias esquecidas do Rancho kanaka, Brockton Point e Whoi Whoi.

Curiosidades sobre Joe Silvey

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Silvey, que nasceu na pequena Ilha do Pico, na cidade de Calheta de Nesquim, empregou-se num navio americano aos 12 anos de idade e, eventualmente abandonou a tripulação e se estabeleceu nesta província – e 158 anos após o início da sua aventura na costa do Canadá, há mais do que 1.000 dos seus descendentes espalhados por esta província.

Joe adquiriu uma propriedade em Stanley Park, estabeleceu um negócio de pescaria, construiu o seu primeiro barco e iniciou a indústria de pesca com redes – usando a sua experiência lusitana.

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"The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey" published in 2004 is the first work of Jean Barman addressing the problem of Azorean emigration to British Columbia.

In the preface of this book writes Manuel A. Azevedo: "There is a Portuguese proverb that says that God is everywhere, but the Portuguese arrived there first."

Joe Silvey

Joe Silvey (Silva) was one of the first Portuguese pioneers coming to Canada long before 1867, the year of Confederation to which the British Columbia joined in 1871.

The history of Pico Joe Silvey began during the 1858 gold rush in British Columbia. These were the years in which the non-native population grew from day to night. The 1,000 souls who inhabited the British Columbia saw a moment's your place "flooded" by dreamers in search of wealth. Soon the population totaled 20,000 people.

However, the Pico Joe Silvey did not find fortune in gold but found a wife's native town which later would be known as Vancouver.

Marriage and fixing in Stanley Park

Silva married Khaltinaht, granddaughter of legendary Indian chief Kiapilano. After marriage, the couple departed by canoe toward Point Roberts where José Silva opened a bar (saloon) and devoted himself to fishing. Lived at Brockton Point in Stanley Park today, locality where eventually meet fellow language including the whaler Peter Smith, Joe Gonsalves, the first Vancouver police, Tomkins Brew.

All of them, except Gonsalves, who remained single - married aboriginal women.

Jean Barman has also published "Stanley Park's Secret," a more comprehensive work that also recalls the forgotten families of Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point WHOI WHOI.

Facts about Joe Silvey

Silvey, who was born on the small island of Pico in the town of Calheta de Nesquim, employed in an American vessel to 12 years old, and eventually abandoned the crew and settled in this province - and 158 years after the start of your adventure coast of Canada, there are more than 1,000 of their descendants spread across this province.

Joe acquired a property in Stanley Park, established a fishing business, built his first boat and started fishing industry networks - using their experience Lusitanian.