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By Brad Morison

“The Governor and Commit-
tee are ... gratified by the favor-
able account ... of Pemberton’s
industry and Exertions in mark-
ing surveys and also by his ..
Map of the Country.”
— Letter to Governor
Douglas, January 1852

ast week, we
looked —. at
the . begin-
ning of the
career of
Josep h
Despard
Pemberton, as the Colonial
Surveyor to the Hudson’s Bay
Company.
“Because of bad weather,
Pemberton and his assistant,
Benjamin William Pearse, dis-
- continued their exploring and.
surveying of the Saanich
Peninsula. Previous to this
time, the district had not been
shown on any maps, according
to Pemberton in his report of
“Dec. 4, 1851. :
During the 1852, surveying |
ifs ‘season, Pemberton and his -
~~ party, ‘managed to: conduct ::
1. several “triangulations - and ®:
-|->-topographic” surveys “in two.
“ directions, west and south in»

ae and east in Saanich.”

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- mer of 1852, Pemberton.

the Esquimalt area, and north

~ Enough information. was.
gathered ' by. March’ of that —
". year for the surveying ‘depart. .”
~=ment to draft a ‘topographic’ ”
PEs map of the “Penineelaat area

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north. of. Mount Douglas,
north to Cowitchin
(Cowichan) Head, and several
miles inland from the coast.”
Pemberton was also able to .
make a “roughly sketched”
‘map of the Saanich Peninsula
and the Victoria and Esquimalt
Districts with data compiled in
March: “the purpose was to
show the region’ s ‘water sup-
plies, that is the rivers, -
streams, lakes, and major
marshes which could pro-
vide drinking water for
settlers, for domestic
herds and flocks, and -.
water . mills,” wrote
Richard I. Ruggles, in:
his book A Country So
Interesting.
. During the late sum-:

traveled with Governor. .
-James Douglas, by ca-
noe to Nanaimo. One of
the reasons was to exam-
ine the “Gulf Islands and to °
- map Haro Strait, with the in-

tent’ of correcting published
a ” of the area.

B.- W. Pearse’ wrote that j in’. >

© 1853, Pemberton and his party
went to North Saanich: to in-

vestigate coal deposits which ;
“were said to exist there“ in aca

noe with five French-Canadian

-voyagereurs [sic] as crew. On |
~ arrival at the Saikum. [sic] vik
~jage,. we obtained’ the: assis”

"tance of the chief, who. showed

“ygithe: black: stone, but it”
“proved ° to. “be. only: lignite.
--Whilst we were having lunch
~ the Pen-al- shut Indians, under.

“their old chief, Mook-mook-

_ fan, having sighted | us, and be
ing alwaysin those days on the.
look out for enemies, began to.
get excited and to yell and fire

“guns, whereupon our..men,
more experienced than we
were with Indians, advised us

to get away quietly, fearing mis:

chief.
This we eqidieavored to do,
“but the Indians mustered in

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force and gave chase; firing
and shouting at us for miles.
We had, however, seven pad-
dlers, five of whom were very

"perfect, and we gave them ‘leg-

bail,’

: Benjamin william Pearse

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and servants.”

ing the work outlining districts

of Esquimalt, Metchosin, and.
‘Sooke.In. June, Pemberton :

hired William Henry Newton

--as his draftsman. Apparently,
Newton, “soon impressed -

Pemberton with his industry
~and ability,” =

During the year they \ were

able to produce no less than 12

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wrote
Archibald Barclay sending him

arriving in ‘talety' at st Cordova :
Bay, where we encamped for .
‘the night. This old Saanich ©
a Chief was for: years | afterwards ©
- one of our most faithful friends

During: the 1853 season,
most of the time was spent i in
the Victoria area, re-surveying ”
various lot lines, and‘ complet- .

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Joseph Despard Pemberion

maps of the South portion of
the Island.

On Dec. 4, 1853, Pemberton
HBC Secretary

a map “of the SE Corner of

Vancouver Island, from Lake to

Cowitchin [sic]; including the
Saanich country & Inlet, on 4
sheets of tracing paper and a
scale of 2 inches to the
Mile.” »
Pemberton. continued
to remark that he would
“send a detailed report °
~ not yet completed, by
next mail. As this map
“has cost a greater ex-
-penditure -of time &
~Jabour, than any you
have yet received, as it
assists greatly to ex- _
plain the resources &
4] , actual value of this part.
1 of the Island, I shall be ©
anxious to hear from you~
of its safe arrival.”
~ In his lengthy letter: of
Dec. 12, 1853, he gives the
following descriptions . of

“North and South Saanich Dis-
“tricts:

“North Saanich District con-« -

tains 17 square miles [s.m.], in-

clusive. of the Islands near ©

Shoal Harbour, which contain

-... probably 2 s.m's, but notex--
‘ceeding 3's.m’s is rock or un,
claimable. The remainder, gen-

quent open: -patches,-is good

and saleable land ... Acoal for-.;
“mation i in what appears to be es
_ dark carboniferous, abounding 3
with fossils, extends from Coal °
“sland to Coal Pt. in Saanich

Bay. I do not believe it will -

prove of any value. The coal is ae

“very thin:seams. which: are °

~jever continuous. ae
South Saanich District con- >

tains 20 s.m's exclusive of allIs-
lands and of the strip of low
land lying north of Cowitchin
Head. Of this quantity about 3
to 3 1/2 s.m's is rock or unim-
provable. - (CONTINUED ON A23

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