Accession Number

2012.007.001.090

Description

One sepia-toned photograph depicting the street view of a three-story wooden house with a picket fence in front, with three woman and a large lightly-coloured dog at the gate. Another darkly-coloured dog is sitting on the road.

Narrative

The woman in the darkly-coloured costume is Laura Miller Dunsmuir (Mrs. James Dunsmuir). The other two women in the lightly-coloured blouses have not yet been identified. Behind is the house named Ashburn situated in Esquimalt, B.C. 
 

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

9.3 x 11.8 cm

Support

Paper, Photographic paper

Country of Origin

Canada