Pung-i "Jessie" (Tonanik) Carpendale on her
chicken farm in Surrey, British Columbia
photo
provided by Deanna Matthews
Pung-i "Jessie"
(Tonanik) Carpendale
Birth: 1 May 1889, in South Head, N.E. Siberia,
Russia
Married:Clarendon Coulson
Carpendale in
1905 in East Cape, Siberia, Russia. Jessie was given away by her
Mother.
Death: 30 September 1971, in New
Westminster, British
Columbia, Canada, aged 82.
Buried: New
Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Notes: Pung-i was a Chukchi,
a people indigenous to Far Eastern Siberia. She was given the Western
name "Jessie" presumably in honour of her mother-in-law Jessie Ann
Turner. In 1927, she
escaped Communist rule with her family by crossing the Bering
Strait in kayaks, landing in Alaska. They lived for a period
in Nome, Alaska, then Seattle, Washington and eventually moved to
Surrey, British Columbia. Canadian Immigration records their arrival in
Vancouver, British Columbia on 28 November 1927.
Sources:
Birth: from document written
by
Clarendon Carpendale
provided by Deanna Matthews .'Jesse Carpendale (Pung-i) Born South
Head, N.E. Siberia, May 1st 1889, British Subject' . The "British
Subject" confuses me a bit, but I guess this refers to her status after
her marriage even though the rest of the note seems to refer to her
birth. Pung-i's last name from Rodger Lee.
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