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making camp in India

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-6-15
  • Item
  • 1903-1906
  • Part of K. McCann

Sarah Byrd 'Byrdie' Dunsmuir and Guy Audain were married in October 1901. After Byrdie had her first child, James, in 1903, she joined her husband and his regiment in Aurungabad, India. Byrdie did not enjoy the life of an army wife and so they came to live in Victoria in 1906, with an income provided by James Dunsmuir.

man playing croquet

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-6-21
  • Item
  • 1903-1909
  • Part of K. McCann

Image is likely taken at Dallam Hall, the Cumbria home of the Bromley family. Laura Mary 'Maye' Dunsmuir married Arthur Bromley in 1904.

Laura Dunsmuir playing croquet

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-6-26
  • Item
  • 1903-1909
  • Part of K. McCann

Image is likely taken at Dallam Tower, home of the Bromley family. Laura Mary 'Maye' Dunsmuir married Arthur Bromley in 1904.

group by a footbridge at Milnthorpe railway station, Cumbria

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-6-34
  • Item
  • 1903-1909
  • Part of K. McCann

The image is taken at Milnthorpe station in Cumbria, UK. The name Milnthorpe can be seen in the lantern in the foreground. This would be the nearest train station to the Dallam Tower estate owned by Arthur Bromley's brother, Maurice Bromley-Wilson. In this picture, Arthur Bromley is in the front of the group with a walking stick, and Maye (Dunsmuir) Bromley is on the far right. Laura Mary 'Maye' Dunsmuir married Arthur Bromley in 1904.

Three women at a railway station, Maye Dunsmuir on right

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-6-38
  • Item
  • 1903-1909
  • Part of K. McCann

The image is likely taken at Milnthorpe Railway Station in Cumbria, UK. This would be the nearest railways station to the Bromley family's Dallam Tower estate. Laura Mary 'Maye' Dunsmuir married Arthur Bromley in 1904.

family group seated on steps

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-6-24
  • Item
  • 1904-1909
  • Part of K. McCann

L to R Front: Muriel, Arthur Bromley, Maye, ?, ? Second row: Laura Dunsmuir, ?, ? Top row: Maurice Bromley Wilson, James Dunsmuir, ?
The location is likely one of the Bromley family properties in the UK. Possibly Dallam Hall, Cumbria or Stoke Hall, Nottinghamshire.
Laura Mary 'Maye' Dunsmuir married Arthur Bromley in 1904. In the image, Arthur has his arm draped informally over Maye's knees, which suggests they might be married by this point.

Maye Dunsmuir and Arthur Bromley wedding, St. Saviour's Church, Victoria, June 24, 1904

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-6-27
  • Item
  • June 24, 1904
  • Part of K. McCann

Laura Mary 'Maye' Dunsmuir and Lieutenant Arthur Bromley were married at St. Saviour's Church in Victoria on the evening of Friday, June 24, 1904. Attending bridesmaids were Kathleen and Muriel Dunsmuir, Miss Bromley and Miss Gertrude Rithet. The groomsman was Arthur's brother, Lieutenant Maurice Bromley-Wilson.
After the church ceremony, some 500 invited guests attended a reception at the Dunsmuir home, Burleith.

Two unidentified men in clearing in Okanagan

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-1-173
  • Item
  • 1905-1909
  • Part of K. McCann

Dunsmuir daughter, Sarah Byrd (Byrdie), and her husband Guy Audain bought some property on the shore of Okanagan Lake. At the time it was known as Short's Point and Guy Audain intended to establish an orchard there with the name Byrd's Island. Their plans changed and the property was sold to James Dunwaters in 1909. It later became known as Fintry. 

Okanagan orchard or vineyard

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-1-172
  • Item
  • 1905-1909
  • Part of K. McCann

Dunsmuir daughter, Sarah Byrd (Byrdie), and her husband Guy Audain bought some property on the shore of Okanagan Lake. At the time it was known as Short's Point and Guy Audain intended to establish an orchard there with the name Byrd's Island. Their plans changed and the property was sold to James Dunwaters in 1909. It later became known as Fintry.

Okanagan orchard or vineyard

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-1-174
  • Item
  • 1905-1909
  • Part of K. McCann

Dunsmuir daughter, Sarah Byrd (Byrdie), and her husband Guy Audain bought some property on the shore of Okanagan Lake. At the time it was known as Short's Point and Guy Audain intended to establish an orchard there with the name Byrd's Island. Their plans changed and the property was sold to James Dunwaters in 1909. It later became known as Fintry. 

Dolaura Guest Book

  • CA RRU 025-002-2-3
  • Item
  • 1908-1965
  • Part of K. McCann

James Dunsmuir’s yacht, Dolaura, was steam driven and about 218 feet from bow to stern and 32 feet across the beam. It was custom-built in Scotland in 1908. The yacht was named after Dola, James’s youngest daughter, and his wife, Laura. This vessel replaced the Thistle, which burned to the waterline in 1907. The Dolaura was magnificent, with lavishly decorated rooms and all the modern comforts. When the Dunsmuirs took possession in Europe, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany came on board for a tour and his is the first name in the visitors’ book. Dunsmuir family members and friends enjoyed many fishing trips and excursions on the ship while living at Hatley Park. In 1920, the yacht was sold to a lumber and shipping magnate in Midland, Ont., and was renamed Victoria. The yacht changed hands and names many more times and even served as an anti-submarine vessel in the waters off Scotland during the Second World War. It was finally dismantled in the 1950s.
Although the Hatley Park estate was sold in 1940 to the Government of Canada, 20 acres of waterfront property adjacent to the Belmont gateway had been gifted to the youngest Dunsmuir daughter, Dola, by her father before he died in 1920. She built a little house there in an English Arts and Crafts style, with hipped roofing, brick walls and tall chimneys. She named the house Dolaura, remembering the family yacht and the many family trips she had taken as a young girl. She had even kept the yacht’s guest book and used it to record visitors to her home.

Wisteria arbour in Japanese garden, Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-1-139
  • Item
  • 1909-1937
  • 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 wisteria arbour is in the upper garden, near the waterwheel.

Waterfall, Hatley Park

  • CA RRU 025-002-1-1-64
  • Item
  • 1910-1940
  • Part of K. McCann

This waterfall is on the north east side of the Hatley Park estate, along Colwood Creek.

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