Just got around to reading the material in the link provided by Dave and the one provided by mg.
Some of the information is incorrect, i. e. French being the major language at Fort Vancouver, the Kanakas being forced into contracts with HB (so many wanted the employment that the Hawaiian government tried in many ways to limit the numbers leaving), etc.

It is true that the Kanakas had their own locality at the Fort (so did the half-breeds and the Indian employees). Socially, class and racial distinctions were observed by the English and Scots factors and managers throughout much of HB history, although they did provide good wages for the times, and in western Canada provided land for their many half-breed (in Canada, the term is Metís for European plus Indian or, in some writings, if the mixture is Scots-Indian, 'country') official and unofficial employees.
The story of 'country' wives and the Metís is a 'whole nother story', which would add a further, and very complicated digression, to the material here. There are many volumes devoted to this peculiar aspect of western Canadian culture. In Alberta, there are Metís lands similar to the Indian reservations for those Indian-French mixed race citizens who have not assimilated.