Born to John Tod and Eliza Waugh in Fort Alexander, York Factory District in Canada. She married first to William Henry Newton in 1856. After his death she remarried to Edmund Mohun. She died in the Aged Ladies Home in Victoria, BC.

NOTE:The City of Victoria Archives http://web.victoria.ca/archives/rosssearch.asphas no record of her grave and the Ross Bay Interactive map http://vicmap.victoria.ca/SilverlightViewer/Viewer.html?Viewer=RossBaylikewise has no record of her burial; nor is there a marker for her on her husband's (Edward MOHUN'S) grave, which is unmarked.

Published in the Times Colonist, pg. 7
December 29, 1928
Victoria, BC

MRS. E. MOHUN PIONEER OF OLD FORT IS DEAD

Mrs. Emmaline Jane Mohun, one of the few surviving women who lived in old Victoria, passed away yesterday at the age of ninety-three years. In spite of her advanced age, this pioneer woman retained her faculties and her interest in affairs to the very last, and only a few weeks ago officiated at the unveiling of the tablet erected by Miller, Court and Company on the new building to mark the site of one of the bastions of the old fort.

As one of the pioneers whose story is told in the Women's Canadian Club book, "Pioneer Women of Vancouver Island," Mrs. Mohun was one of the most interesting figures at the reception given by His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor at Government House recently.

Born in England, the daughter of Hon. John Tod, who was associated with the Hudson's Bay Company, the then Miss Emmaline Tod, lost her mother, who was formerly Miss Eliza Waugh, when she was a year old. She lived with her father's relatives the Greenshields in Montreal for many years, and when she was nineteen years old, saw her father for the first time.

Miss Tod was at that time living in England and came out to this coast with her father on the old Hudson's Bay Company's boat, the Princess Louise, in the early fifties. Hon. John Tod had then retired from the Hudson's Bay Company and was a member of the Council of the First House of Assembly under the governorship of James Douglas.

Soon after her arrival here she became the bride of William Henry Newton, being married by Rev. Edward Cridge in the first English church (Christ Church), which was later destroyed by fire. Victoria in those days was so tiny that it consisted only of the Hudson's Bay fort and a few farms, with no shops and no vehicles, except ox-carts. The bride's wedding ring was hammered out of an American two fifty gold coin by the blacksmith. The honeymoon trop was spent at Metchosin, the journey there and back being made by canoe, paddled by Indians.

After residing at the old fort for six months, Mr. and Mrs. Newton went to Fort Langley to reside, she taking with her a piano, a much-cherished possession and the first on the mainland. Here they led a very lonely life, broken only by the arrival of the men in charge of the interior forts who came to Langley once a year for supplies in exchange for furs, and by the arrival of the Royal Engineers under Colonel Moody, and later by the vanguard of the rush of miners to the Cariboo for the gold rush.

After her first husband's death, Mrs. Newton married the late Edward Mohun, a well known civil engineer, whose work through the Province is well known. He was responsible for many of the engineering projects by the Government and the growing towns of his day.

Mrs. Mohun had six children by her first husband, two born at Fort Langley, one at Sapperton, one at New Westminster and two in Victoria. Four daughters and one son survive.

A private funeral service will be held at Hayward's B.C. Funeral chapel on Sunday afternoon. Dean Quainton officiating. The remains well be forwarded later to Vancouver for interment.
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