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Miscellaneous plans

Bound copies of architectural drawings for Grant Block, and several drawings for Nixon. Drawings are in no coherent order. Not a complete set. 15 pages with cardboard and metal binding.

Journey's End, rear terrace and hydrangeas

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-4-8
  • 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.

Obstacle course

Photograph taken during recruit obstacle course some weeks after recruits arrived at the college. Upon completion of the obstacle course, "recruits" are then referred to as "first year cadets".

August 4 1974

Part of a series of survey maps showing entire campus at different points in time. The original map was created January 31, 1957. One copy includes notes. 1 page; 3 copies.

Rustic gate entrance to Japanese garden

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-1-8
  • Item
  • 1913-1930
  • Part of K. McCann

The upper Japanese garden at Hatley Park was designed by Japanese landscape architect Isaburo Kashida. The garden was installed in 1909 and developed by Tadashi Noda from 1913-1927. This rustic gate signified an entrance to the Japanese garden.

Hatley Castle Porte Cochere and driveway, from the east

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-4-79
  • 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.
When Laura Dunsmuir died in 1937, the house and grounds were maintained by a skeleton staff until it was sold to the Canadian Government in 1940.

A man standing in a long greenhouse behind rows of potted geraniums

  • CA RRU 025-008-1-79
  • Item
  • 1910-1920
  • Part of B. Citerley

The shape of this greenhouse is not the same as the Lord and Burnham greenhouses at Hatley Park 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.

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