page_title: Juan de Canaveris
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Juan de Canaveris / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Español: Fundación de capellanía por Juan de Canaveris y María Eugenia Sánchez, albaceas de Leonor y Sebastiana Esparza.
context_page_description: Juan de Canaveris was an Italian lawyer and politician, who served during the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata as accounting officer in the Tribunal de Cuentas de Buenos Aires. He had achieved a high social status in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, where he supported the revolutionary movements of May, being the only neighbor of Italian origin who attended in the Open Cabildo, of May 22, 1810.
  Juan Canaverys was the founder of the family of that last name in Buenos Aires, connected in turn with the main Argentine families of the colonial and post colonial period of Argentina and Uruguay, and the direct ancestor of prominent military, revolutionaries, lawyers, notaries, politicians and priests of Buenos Aires. He had a long career in Buenos Aires, serving as attorney-in-fact of Francisco Maciel and Victorián de Villava. In 1798 he was appointed as representative of the City Council of Santiago del Estero. During the May Revolution he integrated the sector proposed by Pascual Ruiz Huidobro and Feliciano Chiclana, political group that proposed the destitution of the Viceroy and the assumption of the government by the Cabildo de Buenos Aires, in form of a provisional government.
context_section_description: Giovanni Canaveri had emigrated from the Province of Cuneo, Piedmont to Republic of Genoa in times of Charles Emmanuel III, and settled possibly in Provence, later in Spain and then in Buenos Aires during the reign of Charles III, who implemented the Bourbon reforms in the Spanish colonies.
  Juan de Canaveris used a large number of variants of his original surname, signing documents such as Canavero, Canavé, Canaven, Canaberis, Canavery and others. Canaveris, Canaveriis o Canaveri is a toponymic surname, present in antiquity in North Italy and France, including the regions of Turin and Rhône.
  His family were related to the beginnings of Argentine education, pioneers in adopting the Lancasterian teaching system in the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. Some of his descendants were also involved the establishment of the railways in Buenos Aires (public deeds), including the Great Southern Railway and Lacroze Railroad. 
  General Enrique Mosconi, a maternal great-grandson of Juan Canaveris, and whose father engineer took part in the construction of Central Argentine Railway, was president of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales, and served between 1906 and 1908, in the German Army as Captain in the 1st Battalion of Pioners of Westphalian.
  His descendants took part in most of the political and military events in Argentina and Uruguay, including those that occurred towards the end of the 19th century. Some of them integrated the ranks of the main political parties of the time like the National Autonomist Party, Unión Cívica Radical, National Party and National Civic Union. 
  His caste also took an active part in the birth of the economic institutions of Argentina, including the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires, Casa de Moneda de la República Argentina and Buenos Aires Stock Exchange. Members of his family also participated in the colonization of La Pampa, and the Argentine Patagonia, providing police, military and political services, and related to the arrival of immigrants (possibly Welsh) in the region of Santa Cruz Province.
  Pedro Canaveri and Zoilo Canavery, great-great grandchildren of Juan Canaveris were precursors of the Argentine soccer. Another member of the family linked to the sport was Carlos M. Canaveris, who integrated the First Directive Commission of the Club Atlético y Tiro Federal of Puan in 1907.
  Possibly Juan Canaveris was a descendant of Irish Catholic families established in southern France and northern Italy in the mid to late 17th century. It is through several of his descendants that his lineage is linked to traditional Argentine families of Irish, British and Americans roots, such as Armstrong, Cilley, Clark, Cullen, Bradley,  Halliburton-Wright, Hogg, Kennedy, Lynch, Newbery Purcell, Reynolds-Newton, Rogers, Ross, Terry, Thompson, Tornquist, Walker, Warnes and Yateman's. 
  Stephen Achinelly (1800-1845), linked to the Bayá Canaveris and Thompson-Cunningham families, is registered as a founding partner of British Hospital of Buenos Aires in 1844.
  Juan Canaveri's house was located on the site currently occupied by the building of the Ministry of the Interior of Argentina, built for the Central Argentine Railway in 1901. It was left in inheritance to his son Juan José Canaveris, and later inherited by his grandson Juan Manuel Canaveris, who lived in it until his death in 1868.
  It is also interesting to emphasize that Juan Canaveris also lived in the house of his mother-in-law María Eugenía Sanchez, and later in the house of Sebastiana de Esparza, who allowed her to build a house on her farm located one block from the Plaza Mayor, in the current corners of Calle Reconquista and Bartolomé Mitre (to the east). In this property was founded a Chaplaincy by Juan de Canaveris and María Eugenia Sánchez, testamentary executors of Leonor and Sebastiana Esparza. These lands were subsequently acquired by the Pueyrredón family, and was later the headquarters of the Banco Británico de la América del Sud.
  Juan Canaveris also owned land in the current town of La Lucila. These lands were sold by his son Joaquín Canave
caption: record about the foundation of the Chaplaincy
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