Giovanni Velatti
c.1840-1885/04/20
Square under Compasses, on shield

"... the first brewery in the Thompson Valley, [was] erected by Angelo Pendola and Giovanni Velatti. Pendola was a merchant from Genoa who left Italy in 1860 to run a restaurant in Victoria for a few years, when he opened a Barkerville store, perhaps with Velatti. This was destroyed in the 1868 fire, and he then built a brewery there. Velatti meantime opened a store in Yale, and visited his native Italy. In 1884, however, they jointly erected the Savona brewery, and were very well received by the construction gangs. Next year Velatti died, aged only about 45, and was accorded an impressive funeral. His monument survives on the hill above the point, in the graveyard he shares with [Francois] Saveneux, Dominic Avosti, Pierre Gautin and a construction man named Morrow. Pendola continued the brewery until it burnt in 1889, and soon afterwords died in New Westminster." *

Initiated: Cariboo Lodge No. 4, Barkerville
Passed:
Raised:
Inner Guard: 1871
Steward: 1879

Angelo Pendola served Cariboo Lodge as treasurer in 1880 and 1883, and demitted in 1887.

Also see Savona Cemetery (GPS Coordinates: 50.7618450, -120.8695910).