ARCHITECTURE:
This 1½-storey, Chalet-style, Arts & Crafts Bungalow is front gabled with narrow bargeboards, vestigial finials and wide side eaves with simple brackets. There are low shed-roofed dormers on the sides. The left one is a wall dormer with diamond-paned leaded lights; the right one is above a cantilevered box bay. On the left front is a small gabled porch leading to a recessed entry. The porch has a Tudor arch supported on brackets and square wooden posts on short, stone-capped, granite bases. To the right is an angled bay with diamond-paned, leaded-glass windows. The front gable has a row of three windows with leaded glass transoms. The main floor is shingled, the gables are stuccoed and half-timbered. The cost was $3,000.
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS:
1910-46: The Burtons lived in the Maclure-designed house Lynden, 933 St Charles St (now 1501 Laurel Lane) 1902-10, then moved here. Walter Francis Burton (b. Lincoln, ENG 1861-1940) and Elizabeth Audley (née Paterson-Fox, b. Co Kildare, IRL 1865-1942) came here in 1890. A retired “capitalist,” he was better known for his hobbies, including hunting, golfing and bird watching. In 1930 son Eric Audley Burton (b. Victoria 1897-1971) married Mary (née Rattenbury, b. Victoria 1904-1982), daughter of architect F.M. Rattenbury and first wife, Florence Eleanor Nunn. Eric and Mary lived with his widowed mother 1940-46. He was pres of Burton & Williams Motors, agents for Nash, La Fayette and Morris, then for 20 years a real estate salesman, retiring in 1970.
OTHER OCCUPANTS:
1947-49: Canadian Bank of Commerce asst mgr Charles Whitton Tummonds (b. Middlesex Co, ON 1905-1973) and Helen Elizabeth (née Oland, b. Halifax, NS 1901-1988). He served as a Lieut. Paymaster, RCNVR during WWII. [She was a direct descendant of John James Dunn Oland (d. 1870) and wife Susannah who took over the brewery business and established S. Oland, Sons & Co in Halifax in 1877 with her recipe for the beer.] Helen’s son from her first marriage, Lieut. Edmond Judson “Ted” Canavan, MC (b. Halifax, NS 1922-2008), was awarded the MC in 1944.
1950-82: Mary Ann Bell “Mab”Aherne Harvey (née Pemberton, b. Victoria 1901-1982) was the daughter of Frederick Bernard and Mary Ann Dupont Bell Pemberton, and granddaughter of Joseph Despard and Theresa Jane Grautoff Pemberton Joseph laid out Victoria’s townsite, among many other pioneering activities. [Joseph and Frederick formedJ.D. Pemberton & Son, engineers and surveyors. The company still exists as real estate firm Pemberton Holmes.] In 1928 Mab married Alfred Laird Harvey, CE (b. London, ENG 1897-1949). Their wedding notice said they would make England their home. but after Alfred’s death, she came home.