Accession Number

2012.007.001.082

Description

Sepia toned photograph of four girls standing on a wooden swing. There is a large residential building behind.

Narrative

Depicted in this photograph (L to R) are Joan Marion Dunsmuir (Marion), Marguerite Little, Kathleen Euphemia Dunsmuir (Kat) and Jessie Muriel Dunsmuir (Muriel). They are at Beaufort House, the residence of the general manager for the mines in Cumberland, built as a company house in 1898. The general manager at the time this photograph was taken was Francis Deans "Dib" Little. His eldest daughter is playing with the Dunsmuir girls.

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

8.7 x 10 cm

Support

Paper, Photographic paper

Country of Origin

Canada