Clipping is from the front page of the Victoria Daily Times, June 7, 1920, the day after James Dunsmuir died.
The clipping is part of an advertisement for Lord and Burnham Greenhouses, published in the Florists' Review, October 26, 1916. Note that the headline incorrectly places Hatley Park in Vancouver, B.C., and incorrectly titles James Dunsmuir as a Lord.
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 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.
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 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. This image is part of advertisement in the Florists' Review, published October 26, 1916.
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.
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.
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. The bridge seen in this photo is part of the developments made by Tadashi Noda.
Peter Bugslag was a carpenter and caretaker employed at the Hatley Park estate. Several of his children also worked for the Dunsmuir family.
The image shows the castle newly completed, although the label is signed by Mrs. Humphreys. Kathleen Dunsmuir married Arthur Selden Humphreys in 1915 so the Christmas card cannot predate 1915.
This whole page from the photo album shows three images. The centre image, a forest road, is possibly at Hatley Park.
Phillip Francis Hayward and his family lived in the gardener’s cottage on the west side of the walled garden. His youngest daughter, Frances, was born there in 1913. In this image, the children can be seen playing in the front yard of the cottage as a truck is passing by on the road outside the walled garden.
Hatley Park staff and families are gathered for a picnic, probably at Esquimalt Lagoon beach. Coachman, William Edward John ('Fred') Mann is on the right and Phillip Francis Hayward is on the left holding one of his daughters. At the back of the table is Harry Mann, the youngest son of WEJ and Harriet Mann.
This toy car is also visible in the K. McCann fonds, image 1-3-85, where an adult woman is seated in the car in the Italian garden.
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.
While this image does show the Hayward family outside a cottage at Hatley Park, the surrounding trees suggest it is not the gardener's cottage by the walled garden. Three identical cottages exist on the estate - the gardener's cottage, the footman's cottage, and the butler's cottage. This is most likely the footman's cottage at the north east of the estate, near the original stables and the service entrance to the estate.