Joseph Despard Pemberton
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1821 – 1893
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Who was Joseph Despard Pemberton?
Joseph Despard Pemberton was a surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Surveyor General for the Colony of Vancouver Island, a pre-Confederation politician, a businessman and a farmer. He was born in 1821 in Dublin, Ireland and died in 1893 in Oak Bay, British Columbia. Joseph Pemberton laid out Victoria's town site, southern Vancouver Island and townsites along the Fraser River. He married Teresa Jane Grautoff and they are the parents of Canadian painter Sophie Pemberton. The town of Pemberton was named after him.
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- Born
- Jul 23, 1821
Dublin - Children
- Nationality
- Canada
- Education
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Died
- Nov 11, 1893
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on July 23, 2013
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