Ilija Ćelović
Ilija Ćelović also spelled Elia Chielovich (Serbian Cyrillic:Илија Ћеловић; c. 1840 - 1910) was one of many early Serbs from Montenegro who came to Canada as a pioneer. He operated the Occidental Billiard Saloon in Victoria, British Columbia, according to records.[1]Before that, he was in San Francisco where he founded the "Slavonic-Greek-Russian Benevolent Society of the Orthodox Catholic Church" with other like-minded Serbs, Greeks and Russians in 1864.[2][3][4]
In 1894 Ilija Ćelović resigned from his post as trustee [5]of the Serbian organization, [6]and in 1897 made his way north to Dawson City where the Klondike Gold Rush was discovered. There, after Gold panning for a while and opened a merchant store. At the end of the gold rush, he moved to Victoria, where he bought and ran a saloon.
References
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Canadian_Serbs/zMMRAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Ilija+%C4%86elovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia&dq=%22Ilija+%C4%86elovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Balcanica/th8XAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Ilija+%C4%86elovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA343&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Serbian_Americans_and_Their_Communities/5os8AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Ilija+%C4%86elovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia&dq=%22Ilija+%C4%86elovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Srbi_u_Americi_1815_2010/ZFxRAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Ilija+%C4%86elovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia&dq=%22Ilija+%C4%86elovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Serbian_Americans_and_Their_Communities/5os8AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Ilija+%C4%86elovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia&dq=%22Ilija+%C4%86elovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/%C5%BDivot_i_rad_srpsko_crnogorskog_literarn/X1PkxGiudqgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%D0%98%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0+%D0%8B%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B&pg=PA41&printsec=frontcover
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