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Volume 36, No. 3 BRITISH COLUMBIA Summer 2003 $5.00 HISTORICAL NEWS ISSN 1195-8294 Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation Sex trade Women’s pages Story of a gun Mission among the Nuu- Chah-Nulth Breakfast at Noon Remembering Ted Affleck and Jim Spilsbury Prince George Conference Woman from Nootka. Drawing by Thomás de Suria, 1791 Museo de America, Madrid America, Museo de British Columbia Historical News British Columbia Historical Federation Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation PO Box 5254, Station B., Victoria BC V8R 6N4 Published Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Under the Distinguished Patronage of Her Honour The Honourable Iona Campagnolo. 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It’s worth it! of the Sexual Labour of Slaves in the Nuu-chah-nulth– This is my last issue as editor and pro- European Sex Trade at Nootka Sound in the Eighteenth ducer of BC Historical News. Starting with Century the fall issue, John Atkin will take over. I by Elliot Fox-Povey want to thank all who never stopped send- ing me articles and columns and all who 11 The Women’s Pages: Letters from Friends, a House Full of enjoyed reading them. A special thank you Visitors, or a Source of Help to those who made it possible to do this by Norah L. Lewis job: my wife Helmi in the first place and also book editor Anne Yandle, proofreader 17 “On the West Coast of Vancouver Island:” A Little-Known Tony Farr, Cathy Chapin for her maps, and Account of “Charles Haicks’s” Missionary Joel Vinge who manages the subscriptions, by Jim Manly treasurer Ron Greene, the friends at Polar Printing Inc. in North Vancouver and Mail- 21 The Station Agent’s Rifle o-Matic in Burnaby. 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Kaye Lamb, 1937 1 How Agreeable Their Company Would Be1 The Meaning of the Sexual Labour of Slaves in the Nuu-chah-nulth– European Sex Trade at Nootka Sound in the Eighteenth Century by Elliot Fox-Povey Elliott Fox-Povey lives in N THE morning of 8 August 1774, Nuu- terms of established Nuu-chah-nulth social hi- East Vancouver, Coast chah-nulth people near the Hesquiat erarchy. The Nuu-chah-nulth struggled to limit Salish Territory, and is Peninsula paddled canoes to the Span- sexual contact with Europeans and largely redi- currently enrolled in the O ish ship Santiago, intercepting the first Europeans rected Europeans’ sexual aggression toward en- PDP program at Simon 2 slaved women for the profit of Nuu-chah-nulth Fraser University. He to observe the Nuu-chah-nulth coast. The Nuu- approached the eight- chah-nulth exchanged fur, clothing, and sardines slave owners. The sex trade at Nootka Sound, eenth-century Nuu- for pearl shells and Spanish knives until, less than primarily the sale and purchase of the sex of slaves, chah-nulth–European a day after trading had begun, bad weather forced could be seen as the earliest documented and most sex trade looking for the the ship to move.3 Four years later, on 29 March frequent act of violence between Europeans and unreported agency and 1778, Europeans again entered Nuu-chah-nulth Natives of the Northwest Coast. Yet the sex trade dignity of the Native territory at Nootka Sound, very near Hesquiat, has been excluded from the discussion of vio- women workers. and Nuu-chah-nulth people once again paddled lence associated with European visits to the out to them and initiated trading.4 This time the Northwest Coast, as historians have focused only 1 “…how agreeable their on violence stemming from intercultural con- Company would be to us exchange was drawn out over an entire month, & how profitable to so trading relations and preferences developed flict, ignoring this serious violence, which resulted themselves.” Quotation considerably further. In need of repairs and sup- from intercultural collaboration. The European– from the 6 April 1778 plies, the European ships, the Discovery and the Nuu-chah-nulth sex trade also deserves serious journal entry of Chief historical examination because of the long-term Surgeon David Samwell Resolution, which carried an expedition of Brit- of Captain Cook’s ish led by Captain James Cook, anchored in a persistence and impact of the trade such as in- Expedition; six days after cove near the village of Yuquot.