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Robert W. Siddall, Donald D. Dennis, and David H. Warner’s architectural firm, and prior firms involving Siddall and Dennis, were responsible for designing a number of Victoria landmarks. Representative work includes the Richard Blanshard Building, Centennial Square, and numerous buildings at the University of Victoria including the 1974 library extension (the library itself having been designed by RW Siddall and Associates in 1964), and the Cadboro Commons.

The firm continues in a new incarnation today as Warner James Architects.

commandant at Royal Roads Military College from 1991 - 1994

Born in Exeter, England in 1882, Flintoff initially apprenticed as an artist in the printing trade and became a master printer in Leeds. There, he opened a cinema in 1913 where he introduced the concept of children’s matinees. He also solved one of the common problems in early movie theatres, where films were typically projected onto a large fabric sheets mounted on a stage. The film would often be projected not only onto the sheet, but also the wall behind, creating a shadow effect. Flintoff’s simple solution was to coat the wall behind with a flat, white paint and project straight onto it. His theatre soon became well known for the quality of the projection. During the First World War, Flintoff was a member of the Royal Engineers and assisted his commanding officers by projecting aerial flight simulations onto the ceiling to help them understand the impact of aircraft and airborne weaponry in modern warfare.

Douglas Flintoff came to Canada in 1927 with his family, settling first in North Saanich and then Victoria. He continued work as a commercial artist and developed his interest in film making. He formed the Atlas Educational Film Company and made movies for BC schools, the first being a short film about the logging industry. His plan was to create around 30 films about various Canadian industries that could be used not only in schools but sold abroad too. He claimed they would be educational, of commercial value to the province, and would raise the international profile of BC and Canada.
As a performer and a film enthusiast, it is not surprising that Douglas Flintoff also pursued acting roles in motion pictures. He is credited with a speaking part in a movie called “Murder is News” (1937), shot in Victoria.
As a performer and a film enthusiast, it is not surprising that Douglas Flintoff also pursued acting roles in motion pictures. He is credited with a speaking part in a movie called “Murder is News” (1937), shot in Victoria. He also toured church groups, Women’s Institutes, and hospitals giving lectures, comedy performances, and performing songs with accompanying film reels. By the early 1940s, he partnered with Godfrey Hirst to open a photo-craft store on Broad Street. They sold photographic equipment and movie cameras as well as providing expert service and repair.

In 1934, he started the Victoria branch of the Amateur film club. It was a very active group, initially 8 people, it grew to 51 by the time he died in the late-1960s. His film at Hatley Park was just one of many visits to the property by the film club to make movies. The real estate film was not the first movie to be shot at Hatley Park, and certainly wasn’t the last.
[Some biographical information from an article about Douglas Flintoff published in the Daily Colonist Newspaper, July 9, 1967]

Richard Skinner was president and vice-chancellor of Royal Roads University from 2002 to 2006.

Dr Waddell was a physics teacher at Royal Roads Military College. He is currently the Director of International Initiatives at Royal Roads University.

Edward Goodall was a self-taught artist who specialized in British Columbia landscapes and buildings. He had a copyrighted company called "Goodall's Pencil Postcard Series" in which he drew pictures of scenes of Vancouver Island.

More information can be found at www.goodallartists.ca/edward.htm

A native of Rawdon, Quebec, Udell started wartime service with his enlistment in 1941, attending the Royal Canadian Naval College Royal Roads on Course 3, graduating and being sent on loan to the Royal Navy to serve on HMS Lulworth.

More notes on Udell's naval career and his life available with the donation documents of 2011.003.

Samuel Maclure was an iconic local architect, responsible for designing over 325 commissions through his Victoria and Vancouver offices. Maclure is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Francis Rattenbury on what is now termed the Rattenbury-Maclure Government House, which burned down in 1957, and for Hatley Castle, but he was also responsible for numerous houses throughout Victoria in the Arts and Crafts style. The plans for Hatley Castle show the symmetry and balanced proportions characteristic of his work.

Hatley Castle was not Maclure’s first commission for the Dunsmuir family, but it marked the first time he worked with James Dunsmuir. Dunsmuir was familiar with Maclure’s work from his period as Lieutenant-Governor, however, and the plan of Hatley Castle bears marked resemblances to that of the Rattenbury-Maclure Government House.

Howland Shaw Chandler was a Boston architect active between 1902 and 1918.

Peter Luttmer (1942-) is the son of Frank and Joan Humphreys Luttmer (1919-1996). Joan was the eldest daughter of Kathleen (Dunsmuir) Humphreys (1891-1941) and granddaughter of James and Laura Dunsmuir. After the death of their mother, her younger sisters, Jill (1924-2010) and Judith Marie (1927-1972), lived with their Aunt, Dola (Dunsmuir) Cavendish (1903-1966) at Dolaura cottage adjacent to the Hatley Park property. Like her older brother, James (1918-1999), Joan was an adult and lived independently after her mother’s death.

Barbara Citerley (1935-) is the daughter of Ella (Hayward) Kelley (1907-) and George Henry Kelley. Her mother, Ella Hayward, was born in Victoria in 1907 to Philip Francis and Minnie Hayward. Philip Francis Hayward was employed at Hatley Park between 1910 and 1920 as a florist and likely also as manager of the glasshouse complex. At this time, the Hayward family lived in the gardener’s cottage at Hatley Park, just outside the west side of the walled garden, near the greenhouse and conservatory. A second daughter, Frances Hayward, was born in 1913, while the family lived at Hatley Park. Philip Francis Hayward left Hatley Park employment around 1920 and in 1923 he and his family moved to California where he continued his career as a florist.

Frederick Arthur Peachey (1875-1935) was born on 13 October, 1875 in Mildenhall, Forest Heath, Suffolk, England. He died 10 November, 1935. He is buried at St. John’s Church, Colwood. He was married on 27 November, 1923 to Elsie Mary Smyth (1879-1952). His occupation on the marriage certificate was ‘seedsman’, he lived at Todd Inlet, Vancouver Island (near Butchart Gardens) and he was 48 years old. His father was Abraham Peachey, mother Mary Ann Owens and they may have lived in Metchosin. Elsie Mary was 44 when she married Fred, and also from Tod Inlet. Her parents were Arthur John Smyth and Alice Mary Scrivener. Fred and Elsie Peachey lived at the old stables at Hatley Park from 1925-1935 when he died at aged 60. He worked for the Dunsmuirs as a gardener.

The Bromley family are descendants of Arthur Bromley (1876-1961) and Laura Maye (Dunsmuir) Bromley (1884-1959).