Accession Number

2012.007.002.026

Description

Sepia toned photograph of a large group of people standing on a gravel road in front of a porte-cochere.

Narrative

The people depicted in this photograph are visiting Hatley Park soon after completion of the building. The driveway they are standing on has not yet been paved. On the extreme left is James Dunsmuir Jr. (Boy) and the young girl fifth from the left is Dola Dunsmuir. The other people have not yet been identified.

History of Use

This photograph was taken in about 1910 and placed in an album created by the James and Laura Dunsmuir family at Hatley Park. 

Some of the images of Hatley Park in the album show minimal landscaping, suggesting those photos date from when the house was newly completed, around 1910. At least one of the album's photographs was used as a post card and a postmark on the back shows a date of 1929, giving an approximate date range for the photographs in the album.

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 her 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 1910

Dimensions

11 x 6.7 cm

Support

Paper, Photographic paper

Country of Origin

Canada