The Sunday Olympian’s Looking Back theme for 2024 was Many Voices, celebrating our diverse and rich history. “Kanaka Jack” and his wife Katie lived on Johnson’s Point, where they maintained a woodyard and water tank for visiting steamships. Kanaka Jack was a native of Hawaii. Before Washington became a U.S. Territory, he had worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company in what is now DuPont. The couple’s birth names are unknown.
unknown photographer, about 1900, Courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1949.1230.7
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2024