This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YWC.2ACI/1441.1540.1617.2 Message Board Post: My Name is Carryl Coles. I work at the Chase Museum in Chase B.C. Canada, currently researching the Alexander McBryan Family. Doesthis sound like the same person? What I have so far comes from A book called A Town Called Chase by Joyce Dunn. Alexander McBryan born in Limerick Ireland, settled in Shuswap 1869. Was a child when he left Ireland with his widowed mother and two sisters. Rita Day, great grandaughter of McBryan says he emigtrated to the US and settled in Concord New Hampshire. He later joined a crew on a sailing vessel and went as far a Panama. From ther he joined another crew and sailed up the coast to Victoria BC. He joined the American Army in Spokane. Entered Canada during the gold rush. Married Margarite Tsoully Feb 2, 1869. Had 11 children Philip, Susan,Mary,Alex,Margaret,Ellen, Lulu,John, Eva, Ernest,Raymond. Had a farming enterprise with Whitfield Chase another of the pioneers here. Built a hotel at Shuswap called The Halfway House. He died Nov 2 1911. Man! y of his relatives are still here. can be reaches also at [email protected]