Ella Hayward and Harry Mann, the youngest son of the coachman, were friends and often played together around the Hatley Park estate.
Image is probably taken outside the gardener's cottage, home of Minnie and Phillip Francis Hayward. Peter Bugslag was a carpenter and caretaker at the Hatley Park estate.
This whole page from the photo album shows three images. The centre image, a forest road, is possibly at Hatley Park.
The upper Japanese garden at Hatley Park was designed by Japanese landscape architect Isaburo Kishida. The garden was installed in 1909 and developed by Tadashi Noda from 1913-1927. This image is looking north into the upper Japanese garden.
The Hatley Park estate was developed from 1912-1914 by Boston based landscape architects, Brett and Hall. This included addition of a new entrance on Sooke Road that would bring the visitor down a winding, serpentine road to the main house. An extensive network of roads and trails were added to the estate. In 1913, Hermann Eng was hired as head gardener. He and his wife Theresa lived in the Sooke Road gatehouse for almost 20 years.
Postcard may be from a later date than the images in the album. The handwritten caption "This is Dunsmuir Castle where we lived in Ca. MH" was most likely written by Minnie Hayward, wife of Phillip Francis Hayward, the gardener.
Postcard image of the Italian garden at Hatley Park by John L. Barnard. The postcard may be more modern than the period for other images in this album. It may have been collected by Ella Hayward at a later date.
A large group of Hatley Park staff and families are gathered in the home of (probably) Peter and Ingeborg Bugslag, who are at the head of the table on the right hand side of the image. Also in the picture are some of the daughters of Peter and Ingeborg; John Jameson, footman, is possibly the man seated third from left and behind him are the chauffeur, Dirk Frans Van Maastricht, and gardener, Phillip Francis Hayward (holding his daughter). Other people are unidentified.
The greenhouse and conservatory were constructed and installed by the Lord and Burnham Company and they later used the estate installation in their promotional material. The glass house complex had a full time manager and required 60 tons of coal and 200 cords of wood per year to heat. The ornate conservatory pictured had a central dome of about 30 ft square, with two side galleries, each 60 ft long. Flowers were grown inside that were intended for display in the castle and in later years it was also used for food production. According to a former gardener, interviewed in the 1950s, Laura Dunsmuir said that the conservatory was an extravagance in a private garden and that it should be in a public park.
Phillip Francis Hayward is standing in a greenhouse full of potted, flowering plants. The shape of this greenhouse is not the same as the Lord and Burnham greenhouse and may have been on the estate prior to the improvements made by landscape architects, Brett and Hall from 1912 to 1914. It may also be somewhere other than Hatley Park.
The gardener's cottage outside the walled garden is one of three identical cottages on the Hatley Park estate. The other two are the footman's cottage to the North East of the castle and the butler's cottage by the lagoon on the east side of the creek that runs through the property.
Peter Bugslag was a carpenter and caretaker employed at the Hatley Park estate. Several of his children also worked for the Dunsmuir family.