About John (also Jean) Lemon

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John Lemon was a Métis man who owned twenty-nine acres of land in Victoria in 1855. He was registered as an owner in land-district section 18A. James Douglas awarded Lemon twenty additional acres of land along Portage Inlet in 1859 as recognition for Lemon's work as a Victoria Voltigeur which were the first official Police force in the history of BC. 

- Colonial Despatches UVIC ​

https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/lemon.html

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Lemon served as a middleman from 1843 to 1851.​ Read about the month of May in 1848 in the Fort Victoria Journal 1846 - 1850. It paints a picture of the impacts at the Fort during the measles outbreak. John Lemon is mentioned on May 8th, 1848.  

 

 

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Sunday, July, 9th, 2025:   Fine warm weather with light airs.  McPhail when in search of the cows this afternoon found two Indians carrying away the carcass of an animal belonging to us which they had shot.  On his approach they abandoned the meat & ran into the woods so that he could not catch them or ascertain to what tribe they belonged.  Beauchamp, Lazard, Lemon, Peltier & St. Gre were to day married by the
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         http://www.fortvictoriajournal.ca/1848-may.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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