wife Mathilde Julienne was likewise born in France c. 1837,°
and died in Vancouver on May 11, 1923. The couple had run a
very successful bakery and confectionery on Douglas Street, Yale,
B.C.?° from at least 1873 till early 1886 when they moved to
Vancouver (pre-fire). They ran a very elegant little restaurant on
Water Street, the Maison D’Orée, !! and continued to do so after
the fire, as the Maison D’Orée Hotel on Cordova Street. They
had two sons, both born at Yale: George Antoine (1873-1935)
and Victor Alfred (1874-1878). ’

CYR(S), Thomas Daniel, of the Granville Hotel, was a native of
either New Brunswick '3 or Quebec 4 (somewhere in Madawaska
presumably), born there Sept. 22, 1852.1° He bought the Gran-
ville Hotel from Joseph Mannion in late 1886 and was its pro-
prietor continuously till the late 1890s. He died on May 2,
1907.43 His wife Margaret, a native of Scotland (b. c.
1859)'4 remarried to a James Murphy,’ also a native of New
Brunswick. !3 She died in 1919, 13 and does not seem to have had
any children.

DESAUTELS, R.G., was often misnamed Desantels. He had arrived
in Vancouver before the fire, and was till May 17, 1886 in
partnership with a Patrick Ganson or Gannon in a butcher
business. !° By 1887 he was in partnership with Alphonse Fairon
in the Stag & Pheasant. He was born c. 1846 in Montreal” and
seems to have been married to Marie-Louise Proulx, also a
native‘of Quebec, born c. 1853.!8 She was listed as a boarder
with Alphonse Fairon at the City Hotel in 1891 1° and as house-
keeper there in 1892.”° R.G. Desautels died Sept. 9, 1898"’ and
it is possible that she remarried to Fairon thereafter.

DESROCHES, Joseph. The only likely Joseph Desroches found so
far is listed as a farmer in the 1881 census in the enumeration
district that encompassed Burrard Inlet. *!

DUHAMEL, Henry, may have actually been Horace Duhamel,
who is documented in the collections of Major Matthews as
having been proprietor of the wooden St. Charles Hotel, which
was later replaced by the brick Clarence Hotel.?? Nothing further
is known at this time.

FAIRON, Alphonse, was a native of Belgium, born there c. 1843.

As mentioned above he was partners with Desautels for many -

years in the Stag & Pheasant, and may have married Desautel’s
Widow. He later was involved in the City Hotel with Louis
Canonica. He died on July 26, 191874, and does not seem to
have had any children.

FOUBERT, Frank, appears in Vancouver in 1889, as a contractor
for clearing. 2° In 1890 he obtained a license as drayman, *° based
on Pender St. Other records show that in 1889 he became
proprietor of the St. Charles Hotel, and had moved to the
Arlington in 1890. By 1892 he was licensed as a liquor merchant
and in 1895 he had moved to the Clarence Hotel that had been
built on the site of the old St. Charles. In 1897 he had combined
brewing with hotel keeping. In 1901 he moved his brewing
business into an old house just outside the entrance to Stanley
Park and he opened the Stanley Park Brewery.’ Unfortunately
in 1903 he died28 and the brewery was sold by his widow to the
Royal Brewing Co. Frank Foubert was a native of Quebec, born

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c.1853,?8 and had married Charlotte Atkins,* a native of Ontario,
born c.1870.?8 She later remarried to a Thomas Simpson. *° The
Fouberts had had at least three children: William who went to
Seattle *°, Ethel A. who married Thomas J. Bridge, *° and Frank,
jr. who died a baby in 1894.

GAUVREAU, Charles. It is possible that the Charles Gauvreau of

the Arlington Hotel, was he who had worked for the CPR in
1887 laying track from Port Moody to’ Vancouver. *! Possibly he
also had a daughter Marie, who arrived in Vancouver in 1886,
and attended the first school in Mount Pleasant. She later married
Philip Riviere in 1899. *

MANUEL, Sarah Elizabeth, Mrs. Manuel died on 29th Dec.,

1934, 8 and her obituary quotes: “Upon her arrival in Vancouver
from her native Montreal, Mrs. Manuel became active in hotel
business, being in charge of such pioneer hostels as the Klondike,
Sunnyside, Tremont and Barnard Castle, all of which have now
disappeared. She left in 1904 for Dawson, and was later associated
with the hotel business in the interior of B.C. for many years.” **
She died in Vancouver.

. 1891 Census of Vancouver, E.D. 2-4

. J.S. Matthews—Pioneers of Vancouver: Roll of Members of the

Vancouver Pioneers Association, 1932

1891 Census, ibid

CVA ADD. MSS. 16 Account Books of Dr. H.E. Langis

CVA MSS. 126-A-5

1890 directory of British Columbia

. Monumental inscriptions at Mountain View Cemetery,
Vancouver.

. 1891 Census of Vancouver, E.D. 2-6

. Burial Books of Mountain View Cemetery, Old Section p.93

. CVA PHO. P. 127 “Memories of C.P.R. Construction”

. Vancouver Daily Advertiser, Friday, May 14, 1886, p.3
12. Vancouver Daily News Advertiser, July 30, 1886

. Burial Books of Mountain View Cemetery, Horne I Block, p.

117

1891 Census of Vancouver, E.D.2-6

. Monumental inscription at Mountain View Cemetery

. Vancouver Daily New Advertiser, May 15, 1886

. Burtial Books of Mountain View Cemetery, Old Section, p.30

. Burial Books ofMountain View Cemetery, J 1 Section, p.76

. 1891 Census of Vancouver, ED. 2-4

. 1892 B.C.. Directory

1881 Census of British Columbia, New Westminster

B-North

. CVA Photo BU. P. 653

. 1891 Census of Vancouver, E.D. 2-4

. Burial Books of Mountain View Cemetery, J 1 Section, p.76

. 1889 Henderson’s Directory of British Columbia

. CVA MSS. 126-A-5

. CVA ADD. MSS. 54 vol. 13 file F-127

. Mountain View Cemetery Burial Books, Old Section, p. 62

. CVA ADD. MSS. 54 vol. 13 file F-127

_ Obituaries in the Major Matthew’s Clipping Collection on
microfiche at the CVA underFoubert, Frank

. CVA ADD. MSS. 54 Vol. 13 G-45

. Clippings from Maj. Matthew’s Clipping Collection on
Microfice, under Gauvreau

. Burial Books, Mountain View Cemetery, Horne 1 Section, p.9

. CVA ADD. MSS. 54 vol. 7a, p.95

. 1891 Census of Vancouver, ED. 2-7, p.9

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