Marie-Ann SongheesBirth: the daughter of the Indian chief of the Songhees tribe. She was only s ixteen years of age but the charms of the young Greek were irresistabl e. She left the convent she was attending at the time and they were ma rried by a Russian Bishop according to the Greek Orthodox dogma. She l earned to speak Greek and both were happy and very much respected by a ll." — about 1849 — British Columbia, Canada