Caroline (Quilinick) PASHO* (BELLEAU?)

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Name Caroline (Quilinick) PASHO* (BELLEAU?) Birth 5 Jun 1841 - Uncertain about birthdate and last name, but one person's family tree on Ancestry.com shows her last name as Belleau and BD as 5 June 1841. Don't know their source.
Gender Female Death 14 Feb 1904 Burial Alkali Lake Ranch, BC, Canada Person ID I99 kirkpatrick Last Modified 27 Feb 2010
Father Chief (Paska*) PASHO* Family ID F40777 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Herman Otto BOWE, b. 3 Dec 1834, Hamburg, Germany d. 22 Jul 1912, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
(Age 77 years)
Children 1. Henry Otto BOWE, b. 5 Sep 1864, Germany d. Yes, date unknown
2. Fritzee (adopted) BOWE, b. 1862 ? d. Yes, date unknown 3. Charlotte "Lottie" BOWE, b. 18 Dec 1862, Alkali Lake d. 12 Mar 1936, Pitt Meadows, BC, Canada
(Age 73 years)
4. John BOWE, b. 11 Nov 1869, Alkali Lake, BC, Canada d. 22 Nov 1954, General Hospital, city unknown
(Age 85 years)
5. Emma BOWE, b. 8 Mar 1872, Alkali Lake, BC, Canada d. 1 Apr 1925, Calgary, AB, Canada
(Age 53 years)
Family ID F23 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Aug 2009
Family 2 Unknown UNKNOWN Family ID F34 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 22 May 2006
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Notes - The smallpox epidemic hit the Cariboo in 1861/62 and after that HOB married and Caroline was the name he gave to his bride. She was an Indian Princess and the daughter of Chief Pasha. Her Indian name was was Quilinick. (The name Quilinick, Nana's spelling, is probably a phonetic spelling of the name. It is spelled differently in various sources e.g. in the 1881 BC census it is spelled Colenuk, in the 1891 census it is Calenick and Rhonda Alphonse spells it Kulinkia.)
Source: Kirkpatrick Gold, Feb 23/92
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Source: Kirkpatrick newsletter dated January 2004
(The April 2004 newsletter gives the author as being "Tanya.")
From: "Redwaterwoman"
To: "Bowe's online History"
Story of Quilinick
This was told to me by my mother Marcella, it was told to her by an Elder from Esketemc {Alkali Lake Indian Band}.
In the summer when the fish were running up the Fraser River near Little Dog Creek, Quilinck was a young baby, playing near the river. Her mother and a few grandmothers were busy fishing and tending to the fish. When they realized Quilinick had fell into the river. All panicked and tried their best to get her back, but she was swept down the river by the fast moving current.
The ladies had thought that they would never see her again, they decided to stand in a circle and call on the grandmothers and grandfathers for help. A white swan was said
to circle the ladies and fly down the river, the ladies followed the swan that flew overhead. The swan swooped down out of the ladies sight and was never seen again.
The ladies kept on going till they came over a small hill, to where the swan had swooped down, and there was Quilinck sitting on the bank, all wet but safe and sound, with four white feathers spread out around her.
[Dawn's note: Interestingly, the white swan shows up in Kirkpatrick history, too, though it is a symbol of an impending death with them.]
- The smallpox epidemic hit the Cariboo in 1861/62 and after that HOB married and Caroline was the name he gave to his bride. She was an Indian Princess and the daughter of Chief Pasha. Her Indian name was was Quilinick. (The name Quilinick, Nana's spelling, is probably a phonetic spelling of the name. It is spelled differently in various sources e.g. in the 1881 BC census it is spelled Colenuk, in the 1891 census it is Calenick and Rhonda Alphonse spells it Kulinkia.)