Accession Number

2012.007.001.111

Description

One black and white photograph of toddlers lightly coloured dresses sitting on a bench. One is laughing and pointing.

Narrative

These children might be James "Jimmy" Guy Payne Audain (left) and Dola Frances Dunsmuir (right). They appear to be aboard a steamship. The photograph might have been taken in or near India, where Jimmy's father served in the Indian Army. If this is the case, then the child at right might be a child of one of Jimmy's father's fellow officers in the Indian Army.

History of Use

This photograph was taken in about 1904 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 1904

Dimensions

8.7 x 9 cm