Accession Number

2012.007.002.001

Description

Black cloth album. Front has the word 'Photographs' embossed in gilt lettering bottom right side. The album is held together by a string from the back cover through each page to the front cover. There are 96 pages, of that the first 27 pages contain 92 photographs glued to the paper.

Narrative

This album documents the life and times of the James and Laura Dunsmuir family from about 1910 onward. The album includes scenes at Hatley Park in Colwood, B.C., other locations on Vancouver Island, and in Europe. 

History of Use

This album was created by the James and Laura Dunsmuir family at Hatley Park.

Some of the images of Hatley Park in the album show minimal landscaping, suggesting those photos date from when the house was newly completed, around 1910. At least one of the album's photographs was used as a post card and a postmark on the back shows a date of 1929, giving an approximate date range for the photographs in the album.

Sometime after Laura Miller Dunsmuir's death in 1937, the album became the property of Dola Frances Dunsmuir (also known as Mrs. Dola Cavendish) and was kept at her house Dolaura in Colwood, B.C. After her death, the album was owned by her sister Kathleen's daughter, Judith Humphreys (also known as Mrs. Judith Joy). Her daughter donated the album to Craigdarroch Castle in 2012.

Date

circa 1910 – 1930

Dimensions

23.3 x 36 cm

Material

Paper