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Hatley Castle, garden side. In 1912, the Dunsmuirs engaged the American landscape architects Franklin Brett and George D. Hall of Boston, students of Frederick Law Olmsted, to develop a landscape for the entire site. They prepared a classic design for an Edwardian park that included the overall layout for the entire property.
The Hatley Park Estate originally comprised 650 acres (2.6 km 2). The Dunsmuir family added Hatley Castle, which was completed in 1908. The Canadian Department of National Defence purchased Hatley Park, almost in its entirety, in 1940, for $75,000. This sum was roughly the value of the fence surrounding the property.
The centerpiece of the 642-acre campus is the Victorian-style Hatley Castle, which now serves as the administrative center of the university and is also designated as a National Historic Site. The ...
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Hatley, Cambridgeshire, England, UK Hatley Park , a neighbourhood in Colwood, British Columbia , Canada Hatley Park National Historic Site , a castle and park in Colwood, British Columbia , Canada
Royal Roads University (also referred to as RRU or Royal Roads) is a public university with its main campus in Colwood, British Columbia, Canada.The university is located at Hatley Park National Historic Site on Vancouver Island and is the successor to the Royal Roads Military College (RRMC), which was originally a training base for naval officers and later Canadian Air Force and Army personnel.
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Hatley Castle Colwood, British Columbia: Hatley Castle was built as a private residence in the Scottish baronial style for James Dunsmuir. It is now Hatley Park National Historic Site, the location of Royal Roads University (formerly the Royal Roads Military College). 1906–1908 Samuel Maclure, architect McDowell, Atkins & Watson Company Building