[1] 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 (founding fathers of Argentina) of Italian origin who attended in the Open Cabildo, of May 22, 1810.

[5] Giovanni Antonio Domenico de Canaveris was born near the year 1748 in Saluzzo (Principality of Piedmont),[6] during the end of the War of the Austrian Succession.

[9] In 1785 Canaveris was employed interim of the Junta Montepío de Ministros, an institution established for assistance to widows and families of government employees.

He presented a writ in defense of aldermen to the Viceroy Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú, to avoid annulment the elections, held in that province on July 20, 1796.

[19] His most recognized work was as a representative of Victorián de Villava, the Protector Guardian of Natural resources and Indians in the village of San Pablo, Capinota Province, Bolivia.

[24] In 1796 he was appointed as legal representative of Francisco Antonio Maciel to manage the approval, the Diocesan of Buenos Aires, for the construction of a public hospital in Montevideo.

[25] He maintained a solid social and economic position in the provinces of the Río de la Plata, owned several homes, barracks, lands, jewelry, and servants.

[29] In 1791 he took charge of the legal affairs of the brothers Manuel and José Robredo,[30] a Spanish naval officer who served as an expeditionary of Alejandro Malaspina.

[37] His sons, José,[38] Mariano, Manuel, and Joaquín participated in the defense of Buenos Aires in the regiments — Quinteros and Labradores, Húsares of Pueyrredón, Cántabros Montañeses and Tercio de Vizcaínos.

The Friar Martin Esparza, a relative of Canaveris's wife, was killed by British troops during the second invasion in the interior of Convent of Santo Domingo.

[42] Juan de Canaveris is recognized for being one of the neighbors who were invited to attend the open Cabildo of May 22, 1810 (May Revolution), event that gave rise to the Argentine Republic.

[62] His last name is directly and indirectly linked to families Acevedo, Argerich,[63] Bayá, Casablanca, Cuyar, Ezeyza-Halliburton-Wright, Lagleyze, Lamela, Linera, Lezcano, Luna, Martínez Dizido, Marull, Medina, Michelena, Morel, Nazar Anchorena, Pelliza, Peralta Ramos, Saravi, Sautú, Somoza, Thorne, Trillo, Ugarteche and Vitón.

[66] 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.

[69] 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.

The son of this M. Canaveri presided over the honorary commission of Immigration in Santa Cruz Province, sub-chaired by Juan D. Aubone and Víctor Fenton.

[77] The houses of the Canaveris Esparza family, which also had a warehouse and stables, were rented to English, French and Irish immigrants established in Buenos Aires since the end of the colonial period.

A trips to Paris and London made in 1830 by his grandson Juan Manuel Bayá Canaveris,[84] possibly suggests a paternal connection in Western Europe or Ireland.

[86] His wife, who died on December 17, 1832, in the town of San Isidro, received a distinguished and solemn funeral officiated by Father Bernardo de la Colina in the Santo Domingo Convent, place where she was buried.