Shore to Shore

Unveiled in 2015, shore to shore , by Coast Salish master carver Luke Marston Ts’uts’umutl, Artist Luke Marston is the great-great-grandson of Portuguese Joe and Kwatleemaat. was also the first sculpture depicting historical female figures in a Vancouver park. Shore to Shore is a tribute to Portuguese adventurer Joe Silvey “Portuguese Joe”. A whaler, fisherman and one-time Gastown saloon-keeper who migrated here around 1858 from the Portuguese Azorean island of Pico He was born and raised on Portugal’s Altantic Azores Islands, though after several adventures, Joe found himself on the Pacific, in Vancouver’s Gastown. He married into the native community here . His first wife Khaltinaht, a Musqueam noblewoman who died of tuberculosis at a young age, leaving two children Silvey’s second wife, Kwatleematt of the Sechelt First Nation, with whom Silvey had nine more children . Silvey and Khaltinaht, and later Kwatleematt, lived in a mixed-race community in Xwayxway /Stanley park at Brockton Point, near where the sculpture is located, until the family moved to Reid Island around 1878 to escape growing racism. I think its important for everyone to visit this sculpture if your a local or a tourist its a must see to honor and respect and admire. Its location is right next to the totem poles on the south side .

There are lots of little things to see in this area. A swarm of wasps was inhabiting the nearby water fountain, which has been pooled with water for at least the past two weeks.