1835-1918+Catherine+Schubert


 * __ Catherine O'hare Schubert __**

  from eastern Canada.
 * Catherine Schubert is best known for being the first European woman to enter British Columbia
 * She was born in County Down Ireland in 1835. She left Ireland in 1850 for New York, in search of a better life.
 * She worked as a maid for a wealthy family in Springfield, Massachusetts.
 * It was in Springfield where she met her future husband Augustus Schubert, a twenty-seven year old German carpenter
 * In 1860 the Schuberts moved to fort Garry which is now Winnipeg
 * In 1862 the Schuberts joined a group of men travelling overland to the Cariboo. These men were called the Overlanders.
 * The Overlanders consisted of fifteen groups of gold-seekers.
 * Catherine was four months pregnant when she embarked on her journey across the prairies and the rocky mountains.
 * When they arrived in British Columbia they took the Thompson River instead of the treacherous Fraser River.
 * She went into labour on the raft. She gave birth to a girl named Rose.
 * Augustus was unsuccessful in his prospect for gold.
 * In 1881 they bought a farm in the Okanagan Valley.
 * She died on July 18th, 1918

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