The British Presence
in Southern Patagonia
+ + San Julián: Water supply project,
1938 + +
"Anglo" names in petition to the President
of Argentina
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The area of San Julián, Santa Cruz Province, receives very little rainfall: in the absence of any river, the few natural springs are a valuable resource. The town was founded in 1901: as it grew, so did the difficulty and expense of obtaining fresh water, which had to be brought in by truck. Finally, in 1937, when the urban population stood at 2,200, the central government sent an engineer to study the supply problem. The following year, several hundred citizens signed a letter to the Argentine President, asking him to follow-through with the project.
Note: The following names are taken from a transcript of the original petition. Many forenames have been hispanicised, and some have been spelled phonetically: in these cases, probable English names are provided. Two or three names may have been repeated.
| Alder, Alberto Santiago | Denholm de Kyle, Enriqueta | Mac Donald, James |
| Alder, Elena M | Denholm, Ricardo | Mackenzie, Juan |
| Alder, Ema | Denholm, Walter John | Mackenzie, Victoria |
| Alder, R A | Eduards [Edwards], William | Mac Lean, Colin |
| Alder, Ricardo J | English, Juan | Mac León [Maclean], Juan |
| Anderson, Adán [Adam] | Gibbs, Federico | Maclean, Rodrigo |
| Anderson, James x 2 | Gibbs, Glady [Gladys] | Mac Lennam [Maclennan], Gustavo |
| Bird, Juan A | Gibbs, Sylvester | Mair, Antonio |
| Cameron, Daniel | de Gibbs, Elisabeth | Muir, Alberto |
| Camerón, Enriqueta F | A. de Gibbs, María | Quigley, Inés |
| Camerón, Rosa | Hudson, Oliverio | Quigley, Tomás |
| Camerón, Tomás | Kemp, Carlos | Quiley [Quigley?], Tomás |
| Kemp, Gertrudis | Robertson, Eduardo | |
| Kyle, María Isabel | Tompson [Thompson], Maximiliano | |
| Kyle, Santiago | Walker, Juan | |
| Kyle, Tomás | Walker, Juan (h) [son] | |
| Kyle, Walterio |