Pemberton, Joseph Despard

PEMBERTON, Joseph Despard, engineer, surveyor (b 23 July 1821, Dublin, Ireland; d 11 Nov 1893, Oak Bay). After several years as an engineer on railway construction in Ireland and England, he joined the HBC as surveyor of VANCOUVER ISLAND and arrived in the colony in 1851. As an HBC employee and surveyor general of the colony from 1859 to 1864, he carried out most of the early surveys of southern Vancouver Island, organized the construction of ROADS and bridges, and laid out townsites along the...

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