Gwynne-Vaughan Park was named with Adelaide (Gwynne-Vaughan) Bateman willed her 6.8 acre property to the District of Chilliwack in 1993. The property, located on Hope River Road and Williams Road includes a heritage home built in 1896, gardens and a community garden. Adelaide’s father, David Edward Gwynne-Vaughan purchased the property in 1902 from Fred Driscoll who built the home.
References:
Gwynne-Vaughan. Biography File. Chilliwack Museum and Archives.
Photograph caption: In 1898 Mr. A.D. Fred Driscoll and Miss Margaret Ryder were married in St. Thomas’ Anglican Church in Chilliwack. The bride, given away by her aunt, Mrs. Mathilda Harrison, wore a travelling suit of pale blue, and a walking hat. According to the Chilliwack Progress the merry peal of wedding bells this morning, about six o’clock, announced the marriage. Paddlewheel schedules from Chilliwack to New Westminster no doubt accounted for the early hour of the wedding. After a 10 day honeymoon visiting the coast, the couple returned to reside in their Fairfield Island home. The couple met earlier at the Harrison House Hotel where Margaret worked. Driscoll, a land surveyor, had stayed at the hotel. In 1896 the couple moved into a house located on Hope River Road and is, today, part of the Gwynne-Vaughn Park. It is believed that the Driscoll’s lived in the house until 1902 when they sold the house to D.E. Gwynne-Vaughn and moved to Edmonton. In 1993, this house and seven acre property were willed to the District of Chilliwack, by Mrs. Adelaide Bateman, Gwynne-Vaughn’s daughter. [Chilliwack Museum and Archives, 1235].