Victoria UELAC Early Member: Elizabeth Eleanor Watson, 1923 –2010
- Eleanor was the daughter of John Percival Watson who had been on the Victoria UELAC Executive as Secretary and then as President.
- Active in the U.E.L.A.C. for decades, and for many years the branch recording secretary and treasurer, she received her U.E. certificate in 1984 as a descendant of Captain John Moore of Butler’s Rangers and Dinah Pettit, daughter of Jonathan Pettit and Deborah Robbins.
- Born in 1923, she lived in a classic Arts and Crafts house built by her father in 1913 in Victoria, B.C., in the suburb of Fairfield, until 2008, when she had to enter Hart House Seniors’ Residence.
- She was a fountain of knowledge on the early history of Fairfield, having seen it grow from a few scattered houses separated by cow pastures, to a bustling built up suburb.
- She spent her working life in the government in Vital Statistics.
- Buried at Ross Bay Cemetery.
- UE Loyalist Ancestor: Jacob Young, 1753-1837, John Moore, 1738-1803 and Nathan Pettit, 1676-1768.
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