Accession Number

2012.007.001.129

Description

One sepia toned photograph of a group men and women sitting and standing in front of a stand of trees.

Narrative

The location where this photograph was taken has not yet been determined. However, its location within Dunsmuir album 2012.007.001 suggests that the photograph might have been taken during the Dunsmuirs' trip to Alaska on board the SS Joan during the late summer of 1901.

In the front row: the reclining woman third from left is Sarah Byrd "Birdie" Audain.

In the back row: the second woman from right might be a Loewen sister. The fourth woman from right strongly resembles Elizabeth "Bessie" Maud Dunsmuir (Mrs. John Hope). The sixth woman/girl from right might be Emily Elinor "Elinor" Dunsmuir.

History of Use

This photograph was taken in about 1901 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 1901

Dimensions

8.5 x 11 cm