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- 142 REMINISCENCES OF OLD VICTORIA
months. (Wood headboard is in good state of preservation.)
Henry Francis Lee; died June 22, 1872, age 36 years. Mary Ann Dougherty; died Sept. 5, 1863.
Paul Medana; died Nov. 14, 1868.
James Webster; died Sept. 15, 1862, age 37 years 8 months.
Millicent Page, wife of Wm. Page; died Feb. 19, 1864, age 55 years.
Kenneth Nicholson; died Nov. 10, 1863, age 35 years. Charles Dodd (Chief Factor H. B. Co.) ; died June 2, 1860, age 52 years.
Eleanor M. Johnston; died June 2, 1860.
VICTORIA'S FIRST CEMETERY.
The finding of the skeletons in the excavation of Johnson Street this week, recalls the last find near-by, a few years ago, in laying waterpipes on Douglas Street, and I find, in referring to an article I wrote five years ago on clippings from the Victoria Gazette, Victoria's first newspaper, that "the Council have ordered the removal of the bodies from the cemetery on Johnson Street to the new cemetery on Quadra." I can well remember seeing this removal ; the bones where the bodies were not entire being thrown into carts, and taken to the Quadra Street Cemetery. I might state that with the exception of a few Hudson's Bay Company's employees, those buried there were men from Her Majesty's fleet at Esquimalt. This may seem a long time ago for vessels of war to be at Esquimalt, but by the tombstones in Quadra Street Cemetery, I find there were some of the seamen from H. M. S. Cormo-
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rant buried in 1846. One of these was Benjamin Topp, and also John Miller, of H. M. S. Thetis, who were drowned in Esquimalt harbor; also W. R. Plummer, James Smith, and Charles Parsons, all drowned between Esquimalt and Victoria, August 22, 1852; also James D. Trewin and George Williams, February 4th, 1858. These were all removed to Quadra Street the following year.
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