Hugo Robertshaw

census 1881 20 years old (http://saltspringarchives.com/stats/1881.html)
census 1901 29 years old born August 10, 1872 (http://saltspringarchives.com/stats/census1901.htm)

http://saltspringarchives.com/deaths.html
Robertshaw, Hugo, died - 09-Nov-26, born- Aug 1870, Acute Broncho Pneumonia, buried - 11-Nov-26                  conflicting birth date??

Parish and Homes
http://saltspringarchives.com/wilson/ParishandHome/index.htm

He was injured in an horse and buggy accident April 13, 1897 • (SS Parish and Homes, May 1897)
He donated $1 towards painting of St. Mark's Church • DECEMBER, 1901 SS Church Monthly
He donated $1 towards the Mahon Memorial Tablet • March 1905 SS Church Monthly (Rev Wilson)
picture page 29 Snapshots

http://saltspringarchives.com/driftwood/70s.html
He was one of the 190 members of the Salt Spring Island Agriculture Association in 1912 (Driftwood  March 31-1976)

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Charles Kahn - The Story of an Island
---- Many of these immigrants were brothers. Among the first to arrive in the late 1880s were Henry Louis and Ross Mahon, grandsons of an Irish nobleman. In 1891, the Mahon brothers bought land on Long Harbour, at the head of Ganges Harbour, and on Walter Bay, a mile southeast of Ganges. Ross Mahon owned a small steam vessel named The Mist, and he brought another Irishman, Hugo Robertshaw, out to run it.

Thomas and Jack Scovell were another pair of Irish brothers. We know little about Thomas, except that he died of typhoid fever in a sanitarium in Banff in 1898. Jack Scovell pre-empted 160 acres on Ganges Harbour that included land from the Harbour House Hotel east to include all of what is now Churchill Road. Jack Scovell and Robertshaw became very good friends. Here is how engineer E. R. Cartwright described them when he lived on Salt Spring in the early 1900s:

Jack Scovell ... was well past middle age when I first met him, but even then he had one of the soundest practical brains and an extremely forceful personality. He gave and demanded of his friends absolute trust and loyalty.

Jack was a bachelor, and with him lived a strange character, Hugo Robertshaw.... Ross [Mahon] was drowned when bathing at Long Harbour and Jack Scovell, who understood Hugo, gave him a home. Hugo was a man of great strength and a small squeaky voice, a eunuch we always supposed, a good gardener, splendid cook and a very willing hairdresser who knew how to sharpen his own scissors. His devotion to and dependence on Jack was almost pathetic. Fortunately perhaps he died of pneumonia just at the time when Jack himself was going into hospital for his last illness.

http://saltspringarchives.com/garydunn/gatherings_farms/pages/216.htm
Jack Scovell : http://saltspringarchives.com/crofton2/pages/2009098015a.htm

Rev. E.F. Wilson family wedding party gathering Feb 12, 1898 (Marriage of Kathleen Wilson and Frank Scott) Back Row (standing) L-R Col. Craig, Norman, Mr. Robertshaw, Harold Scott, Leonard Tolson, Fred Crofton, Nona, Llewelyn, Pascal Walker, Winifred, Fritz Walter, Keith, Rev E.. Wilson

CKC. 998.162.078

page 130 Charles Kahn, Salt Spring - The Story of an Island

Salt Spring Island Club, ca.1896

Snapshot of Salt Spring Club members: from left (back row): Fred Smedley, Leonard Tolson, Frank Scott, Gerald Young, Hugo Robertshaw, Tom Scovell, Harold Scott; (front row) Frederick Foord, Jack Scovell, Dennis Baker, Howard Horel. Fred Smedly and Harold Scott drowned in 1898 when their boat overturned as they were crossing Ganges Harbour to the Scotts’ farm.

In 1932, Ethel Moorehouse bought the property where Jack Scovell had lived a few years earlier on Upper Ganges Road at the junction of Churchill Road. Moorehouse opened a school in the guest cottage in which Scovell’s friend Hugo Robertshaw had lived, but she had a heart attack only four years after purchasing the property. Her teenaged daughter Helen took over the school until the end of the year, when it was closed.

Grave of Hugo Robertshaw (click for details)

Bill Evans:

Grampa Evans did have a small boat at Vesuvius which he used as a water taxi over to Crofton before the ferry service started. It was called the Magalan. Sometimes he took people fishing. His dog which travelled with him was Peggy, a golden cocker. She would preform tricks for people...wear a hat and eyeglasses, smoke a pipe, stand on the posts of 2 chairs etc.
Enjoy your day...Marguerite Lee

Grampa Evans did have a small boat at Vesuvius which he used as a water taxi over to Crofton before the ferry service started. It was called the Magalan. Sometimes he took people fishing. His dog which travelled with him was Peggy, a golden cocker. She would preform tricks for people...wear a hat and eyeglasses, smoke a pipe, stand on the posts of 2 chairs etc.
Enjoy your day...Marguerite

http://saltspringarchives.com/garydunn/gatherings/pages/146.htm (1950)

http://saltspringarchives.com/ckc/pages/006.htm

Daisy Gear talking about her father Bill Evans : • http://saltspringarchives.com/audio/71gear.html