1835-1918+Catherine+Schubert

Catherine Schubert


 * 1st European woman to enter British Columbia overland from eastern Canada
 * youngest of all nine children
 * she was born in Ireland 1835
 * when she was 16 she sailed to the united states and worked as a maid
 * in her spare time she taught herself how to read
 * when she was 19 she met a man who was 27 years old and they got married in 1855

Questions: 1. Who was Catherine Schubert? 2. What did she do to become famous and successful? 3. Where did she visit in Canada?

Catherine Schubert was the only woman among a group of goldseekers called the 'Overlanders of '62' These hardly travellers set off from Fort Garry westward across the prairies in carts and wagons. There were no roads, only trails to follow. The greatest obstacle was the Rocky Mountians. The only way over the mountains was to find a pass, such as the Athabasca Pass, and make the climb on foot or snowshoe. The last part of the trip was by boat down the Columbia River with its dangerous rapids to Fort Vancouver. Catherine Schubert gave birth to a daughter the day she arrived in Kamloops. 