Accession Number

2014.014.023.171

Description

One onionskin site plan for the Dalzellowlie subdivision including green pencil crayon markings showing where the Bryden house, gardens, drives and outbuildings were in relation to the new lot lines for the residential subdivision built on the site.

Narrative

Dalzellowlie was a house designed by J. Gerhardt Tiarks for John Cowper Bryden and Elizabeth Bryden (nee Dunsmuir), and built in 1894. The property around the house was eventually subdivided as shown on this plan. The house was subsequently destroyed by fire on April 3, 1945. The plan shows twenty six separate lots were created from the Dalzellowlie property at 664 Head Street. 

The undated plan was prepared by Musgrave & Whyte, Domminion and B.C. Land Surveyors.

History of Use

This document was prepared for P.R. Brown Ltd., a Victoria, B.C. real estate and Estate managing company that administered the Estate of John Cowper Bryden on behalf of his three children who were his beneficiaries: John William Bryden, Robert Dunsmuir Bryden, and Joan Olive Bryden (Mrs. Alastair Douglas Macdonald). It was kept in a tin box with other documents in P.R. Brown's Victoria office until sometime after the death the last of the three aforementioned children at which point it was taken by family members to the Courtney, B.C. area.  

Material

Paper, onionskin