Accession Number

2012.007.001.053

Description

Black and white photograph of three young girls and a young boy. The girls are sitting on a wooden railing, the boy is standing.

Narrative

Pictured in this photograph are (L to R): James Dunsmuir Jr. (Boy); Joan Marion Dunsmuir (Marion); Kathleen Euphemia Dunsmuir (Kat); Jessie Muriel Dunsmuir (Moulie or Muriel), and either Laura Mary Dunsmuir (Maye) or Elizabeth Maud "Bessie" Dunsmuir. They are seated on the railing of a porch at Burleith, the Dunsmuir family home on the Gorge waterway between 1891 and 1906.

History of Use

This photograph was taken in about 1898 and placed in an album created by the James and Laura Dunsmuir family at Burleith, their home on Victoria's Gorge Waterway. In 1906 it was probably taken by the family to Victoria's Government House where they lived while James served as British Columbia's eighth Lieutenant Governor. From there it was taken to the family's new house, Hatley Park, in 1910.

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 hear 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 1898

Dimensions

10.2 x 8.9 cm

Support

Paper, Photographic paper

Country of Origin

Canada