- CA RRU 025-002-1-6-40
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- 1903-1909
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The people in this photo are unidentified. Possibly Arthur Bromley on the right.
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The people in this photo are unidentified. Possibly Arthur Bromley on the right.
group standing in a doorway with croquet mallets
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Arthur Bromley is on the left; the man in the centre is holding a camera as if he is photographing the photographer.
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Arthur Bromley is stood on the left. A dog has everyone's attention.
group by a bridge at Milnthorpe railway station
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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 to the left of the group with a walking stick, and some of the Dunsmuir sisters are present. Laura Mary 'Maye' Dunsmuir married Arthur Bromley in 1904.
RD Harvey, Byrdie, Guy Audain in India with guns
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This image is from a hunting trip taken in India. The man on the left is identified as R.D. Harvey and Byrdie and Guy are on the right.
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.
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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.
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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
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Image is likely taken at Dallam Tower, home of the Bromley family. Laura Mary 'Maye' Dunsmuir married Arthur Bromley in 1904.
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women in carriage in a courtyard
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group by a footbridge at Milnthorpe railway station, Cumbria
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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
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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.
group standing with croquet mallets, two seated
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Arthur Bromley is stood on the left with a basket of balls; one man is holding a camera.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
James Dunsmuir and young Dola on a railway track
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Black Album 2 contains pictures of various Dunsmuir vacations, including a trip to Egypt in 1912. Most of the people and places in this album are unidentified.
Guy and James Audain and two women sat on basalt rock formations
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This image is a postcard that Jimmy Audain, the boy featured in the image, sent to his aunt, Dola Dunsmuir. Although aunt and nephew, they were born within a few months of each other.
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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.
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Photos in this album were collected by Muriel Dunsmuir and include several images from her home, Journey's End, which was built adjacent to the Hatley Park estate and is now a part of Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site. There are also many views of Hatley Park taken ca. 1939-1940, when there were no longer any Dunsmuir family members in residence, but the estate had not yet been sold to the Canadian Government for use as a naval training establishment.
Woman playing with doll on grass
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