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A cottage in Wellington

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-1-169
  • Item
  • 1890-1937
  • Part of K. McCann

Wellington, north of Nanaimo, was the site of the first of the many mines Robert and James Dunsmuir would establish on Vancouver Island. Modest cottages were built for the miners employed in the mines.

A destroyed British tank, exact mark unknown

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-3-319
  • Item
  • 1921-1924
  • Part of K. McCann

In the early 1920s, Dunsmuir sisters, Dola and Muriel, and Muriel’s husband, Edward Molyneux, took time to tour the ruins of Europe in the aftermath of the war. Edward Molyneux was an ideal tour guide for the sisters, having served in 1915 with the Duke of Wellington Regiment on the Western Front. Although he was promoted to Captain for his actions in battle, injury resulted in the loss of sight in his left eye and withdrawal from active duty.

A man and Dola at a roadside picnic

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-3-276
  • Item
  • 1921-1924
  • Part of K. McCann

In the early 1920s, Dunsmuir sisters, Dola and Muriel, and Muriel’s husband, Edward Molyneux, took time to tour the ruins of Europe in the aftermath of the war. Edward Molyneux was an ideal tour guide for the sisters, having served in 1915 with the Duke of Wellington Regiment on the Western Front. Although he was promoted to Captain for his actions in battle, injury resulted in the loss of sight in his left eye and withdrawal from active duty.

A man smoking at Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-2-19
  • Item
  • 1910-1912
  • Part of K. McCann

This unidentified man is standing on the circular driveway in front of Hatley Castle. Behind him, there is minimal landscaping, and no evidence of the Neptune steps, installed between 1912 and 1914 by Boston based landscape architects, Brett and Hall. Something has obscured the right side of the photographer's lens.

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.

A man with fishing rods at Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-2-20
  • Item
  • 1910-1912
  • Part of K. McCann

This unidentified man is standing on the unpaved, circular driveway in front of Hatley Castle. Behind him, there is minimal landscaping, and no evidence of the Neptune steps, installed between 1912 and 1914 by Boston based landscape architects, Brett and Hall. James Dunsmuir also appears in the background.

A school girl, St. Margaret's school, Victoria

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-3-143
  • Item
  • 1912-1919
  • Part of K. McCann

Dola Dunsmuir attended St. Margaret’s School in Victoria. The school was designed by Francis Rattenbury and opened at Fort and Fern Street in 1912. The school moved to a new location in 1970.

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