Accession Number

2012.007.001.112

Description

One black and white photograph of a toddler dressed in a lightly coloured dress and wide-brimmed bonnet sitting on the grass touching a bush with a small toy shovel in the foreground.

Narrative

This child is believed to be James "Jimmy" Guy Payne Audain, the first grandchild of James and Laura Dunsmuir. The photograph might have been taken in India where Jimmy's father, Guy Mortimer Audain, served 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

7.7 x 7.5 cm

Support

Paper, Photographic paper