Pemberton was named for Joseph Despard Pemberton, a surveyor-general for the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1850s. Joseph Pemberton had laid out Victoria's townsite, and supervised the building of British Columbia's first legislative building.
The village's look is slightly rustic and has the appearance of the set of an Old West movie. This is partly deliberate for tourism image-making reasons but is also a legacy of the area's roots as part of the Lillooet Country and its ranching and mining culture
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