Person merchant company director
Manuel Gonçalves
c. 1867–1916
merchant · company director
Funchal merchant (c.1867–1916) who sought to free local trade from foreign, especially British, houses. He founded the Companhia dos Sanatórios and, as director of the Monte Railway Company, extended the line to Terreiro da Luta, where he built its restaurant and erected the Zarco statue.
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- Representation in the Cortes — Madeira's procurador in the Corporative Chamber, 1935-1946.
- Bibliography — Popular poet known as the Feiticeiro do Norte, author of many small verse pamphlets.
- Zarco (João Gonçalves) — Former merchant who funded the Zargo statue at Terreiro da Luta.
- Fishing industry — Commander who tried unsuccessfully in 1903 to establish fixed tuna traps in Madeira.
- The English — Portuguese merchant credited with weakening British commercial dominance in Madeira.
- Sanatoria of Madeira — Madeiran agent of the Sanatoria Company.
- Terreiro da Luta — Madeiran director of the Monte Railway Company who extended the line to Terreiro da Luta, built its restaurant and erected the Zarco statue.
- Arco de São Jorge (parish) — Popular troubadour 'Manuel Feiticeiro', born in the parish, who sold printed song pamphlets across the island.
