Members

Maureen Duffus

A newspaper writer, Maureen Duffus has also enjoyed a few unrelated occupations, including a summer job in Britain as secretary/driver for the touring Oxford and Cambridge Players.

She is the great-granddaughter of James and Mary Yates who came to Fort Victoria in 1849, after whom Yates Street is named.

Married to Dr. John Duffus, professor emeritus and former Dean of Science and Engineering, Royal Roads Military College. Two sons, two grandchildren.

Mark and Fern Perkins

Fern Perkins is a teacher and university instructor. She is the great, great, great granddaughter of Charles and Isabella Ross, first Métis family of Fort Victoria in 1843. Charles was the HBC Chief Trader who supervised the building of Fort Victoria from 1843-44 until his death. Ross Bay Cemetery and Ross Bay are named after Isabella, the first registered woman landowner in British Columbia.

Mark Perkins is a retired Battalion Chief from Victoria Fire Department. He was formerly a mathematics and physical education teacher. Ogden Point was named after his great,great,great grandfather, HBC Chief Factor, Peter Skene Ogden, in 1843. Ogden was appointed to the HBC Columbia Board in 1846 to oversee the business of the Forts.

Mark Perkins and Fern Barker were married at the Church of Our Lord in Victoria, unaware of that they shared HBC history in Victoria and the Pacific Northwest.  They have a daughter, two sons and a grandson.

Nancy Anderson

My name is Nancy Marguerite Anderson, and I am the great-grand-daughter of Alexander Caulfield Anderson of the HBC, and 2x great-grandaughter of James Birnie and Charlot Beaulieu Birnie, founders of Cathlamet, WA. I have been an offshore sailor, restauranteur, and sales representative, and am now a writer.

I am the author of a book to be published by Heritage House in October 2011. The book is titled: The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson’s Journeys in the west. I also maintain a blog that tells stories of Anderson’s experience in New Caledonia and the interior, but contains a few items of interest to those who worked at Fort Victoria or lived in the colony.

Pamela E. Pike Gaudio

    

Pamela E. Pike Gaudio is the great great granddaughter of Chief Factor Roderick Finlayson and the 3 x great granddaughter of Honorable Chief Factor John Work and Suzette Legace. Pam is married to Gaetano Gaudio, a master Italian shoemaker, and has three children and seven grandchildren