Susan Rock

Susan Rock (52˚17'00" 128˚30'00" In Milbanke Sd, W of Cecilia I, NW of Bella Bella). Named for Susan Frances Pemberton, the sister of Joseph Pemberton, Vancouver I’s first colonial surveyor gen. A native of Ireland, she came out to Victoria about 1855 with her uncle, Augustus Pemberton, and lived with her brother at Gonzales, the large Pemberton estate in SE Victoria. She became the first principal of newly constructed Angela College, an early Victoria school for girls, in 1866 (this...

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