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Mystery Gallery

4 April 2025

As part of the Oak Bay Artists' silver anniversary Studio Tour this weekend, a Mystery Gallery from Oak Bay Archives will be on display at the Monterey Centre.

Oak Bay Archives is missing provenance information for several original artworks in its collections. Can you help?

1) Title: Home of Mrs & Mrs W.L. Ford, Wilmot Place [?1568 Wilmot Place]

Artist: Unknown

Date: Unknown – 1970s/80s?

Medium: Watercolour

Object #: 2017/43

2) Title: Castle Block, Oak Bay Avenue, from Wilmot Place end (looking north & east)

Artist: Unknown, initials RPR

Date: 1975

Medium: Pencil and marker-type pen

Object #: 2013/21/1

3) Title: Castle Block, Oak Bay Avenue, from Hampshire Rd end (looking north & west)

Artist: Unknown, initials RPR

Date: 1975

Medium: Pencil and marker-type pen

Object #: 2013/21/1

4) Title: "Olympics from Oak Bay"

Artist: Unknown - after/style of Owen Goward?

Date: Unknown

Medium: watercolour

Object #: 2017/45

5) Title: The old Oak Bay Boathouse, dock and moorings

Artist: Unknown

Date: Unknown. If from life, pre-1962.

Medium: watercolour

Object #: 2017/39

6) Title: "Third Green and Fourth Tee, Uplands Golf Course"

Artist: H. Edmonds

Date: 1968

Medium: Watercolour

Object #: 2017/40

All artworks are shown in facsimile.

If you are able to share any information about any of them, please leave a note here using an Enquiries form, or contact the Archivist:

Email: archives@oakbay.ca

Phone: 250-598-3290