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Japanese Garden island, Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-4-145
  • Item
  • 1938-1940
  • Part of K. McCann

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.

Japanese Garden tree at Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-4-146
  • Item
  • 1938-1940
  • Part of K. McCann

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.

Black horse

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-3-146
  • Item
  • 1912-1919
  • Part of K. McCann

Possibly Dola's horse, named Beauty.

WEJ (Fred) Mann and two horses in front of Neptune Steps, Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-3-147
  • Item
  • 1912-1919
  • Part of K. McCann

Coachman, William Edward John (‘Fred’) Mann, was in charge of the stables at Hatley Park. The two horses pictured are James Dunsmuir Jr.'s dapple grey horse, Kismet, and Dogfox, a polo horse belonging to James' Dunsmuir Sr.'s brother-in-law, Reggie Chaplain.

Rose garden, Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-1-147
  • Item
  • 1913-1937
  • Part of K. McCann

The rose garden to the west of the Japanese garden was added as part of extensive development of the estate by Boston based landscape architects, Brett and Hall from 1912-1914. The original plans show a small pond or reservoir in the centre of the garden but this was replaced with a sundial.

Gate House on Sooke Road, Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-4-147
  • Item
  • 1938-1940
  • Part of K. McCann

Hatley Castle was designed by renowned British Columbia architect Samuel Maclure for James Dunsmuir. The estate was further developed from 1912-1914 by Boston based landscape architects, Brett and Hall. This included addition of a new entrance and gate house on Sooke Road that would bring the visitor down a winding, serpentine road to the main house. This view is from outside the property, on Sooke Road.

sternwheeler named Canadian

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-6-147
  • Item
  • 1898-1905
  • Part of K. McCann

The Canadian was built in 1898 and ran until 1937. It was the largest of ships in the Yukon

Gate House on Sooke Rd., Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-4-148
  • Item
  • 1938-1940
  • Part of K. McCann

Hatley Castle was designed by renowned British Columbia architect Samuel Maclure for James Dunsmuir. The estate was further developed from 1912-1914 by Boston based landscape architects, Brett and Hall. This included addition of a new entrance and gate house on Sooke Road that would bring the visitor down a winding, serpentine road to the main house. This view is from inside the property gates, looking towards Sooke Road.

James and Laura Dunsmuir and group in Egypt

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-3-148
  • Item
  • 1912
  • Part of K. McCann

The Dunsmuir family and some friends took an extended vacation from November 1911 to September 1912. They started the vacation in Switzerland and then travelled along the Nile, enjoying a variety of Egyptian historic sites and experiences. After their tour of the Nile, the Dunsmuirs travelled on to England and took over Bisham Abbey in Buckinghamshire for the spring and summer months.

Sternwheeler Clifford Sifton

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-6-149
  • Item
  • 1899-1904
  • Part of K. McCann

The Clifford Sifton ship was built in 1899 on Bennett lake and travelled between Bennett, Dawson and White Horse. It was wrecked in 1904. The ship was named for the Minister of the Interior, Clifford Sifton (1896-1905) who implemented various policies to encourage immigration to western Canada.

Rose garden sundial, Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-1-149
  • Item
  • 1913-1937
  • Part of K. McCann

The rose garden to the west of the Japanese garden was added as part of extensive development of the estate by Boston based landscape architects, Brett and Hall from 1912-1914. The original plans show a small pond or reservoir in the centre of the garden but this was replaced with a sundial.

Belmont Gate House, Ocean Blv., Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-4-149
  • Item
  • 1938-1940
  • Part of K. McCann

Hatley Castle was designed by renowned British Columbia architect Samuel Maclure for James Dunsmuir. Using only the finest materials, builders, stonemasons and detail carpenters only took 18 months to construct the building from 1908 until 1910. The Belmont gate house on the eastern side of the property was the original main entrance and was occupied by estate manager John Graham Graham and his wife, Clara. The estate was further 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.
This view is from within the property looking towards Ocean Boulevard.

James Dunsmuir and (possibly) Laura on Donkeys, Egypt

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-3-149
  • Item
  • 1912
  • Part of K. McCann

The Dunsmuir family and some friends took an extended vacation from November 1911 to September 1912. They started the vacation in Switzerland and then travelled along the Nile, enjoying a variety of Egyptian historic sites and experiences. After their tour of the Nile, the Dunsmuirs travelled on to England and took over Bisham Abbey in Buckinghamshire for the spring and summer months.

Royal Roads University fourteenth convocation of degree recipients

Program of events for afternoon convocation, where degrees were presented for Master of Arts in Distributed Learning, Master of Arts in Leadership and Training, Master of Arts in Conflict Analysis and Management, Master of Arts in Environment and Management, Master of Science in Environment and Management, Distributed Learning Certificate in the Business of E Learning, Graduate Certificate in Online Learning Facilitation, Graduate Certificate in Design Process, Graduate Diploma in Knowledge Management, Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Corporate Relations, Industry Certified Systems Analyst Diploma, Industry Certified Network Security Analyst Diploma, and Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science programs.

four women stood knitting outside Dola's playhouse at Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-3-15
  • Item
  • 1912-1929
  • Part of K. McCann

Dola had a playhouse on the east side of the creek that runs through the Hatley Park property. It was built for her by Peter Bugslag, a carpenter who lived in the house by the present day entrance to Hatley Park. The house and furnishings were scaled down to suit children's play. The women and the child are unidentified in this photo. The child is too young to be Dola, who was seven when the family moved to Hatley Park.

Royal Roads University twentieth convocation of degree recipients

Program of events for morning convocation, where degrees were presented for the Master of Arts in Conflict Analysis and Management, Master of Arts in Human Security and Peacebuilding, Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Master of Arts in Environment and Management, Master of Science in Environment and Management, Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication, Master of Arts in Leadership and Training, Master of Arts in Distributed Learning, Bachelor of Arts in Justice Studies, Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science in Environmental Management, Graduate Certificate in Personal Leadership, Graduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership in Tourism, Distributed Learning Certificate in Design Process, and Industry Certified Network Security Analyst Diploma.

Journey's End, umbrella on terrace

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-4-15
  • Item
  • 1932-1940
  • Part of K. McCann

In 1928, Muriel Dunsmuir married Maurice “Tolly” Wingfield and by 1932, they had built Journey’s End, a home adjacent to the Hatley Park property and in the Arts and Crafts style. In 1952, it was used as a staff residence for Canadian Services College Royal Roads and since 1988, it has been the administration building for Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Park.

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