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Interesting historical postcard, signed H.J.S.M., but fortunately, likely addressed to his mother, Mrs. Muskett, which made the search for further information relatively easy. He wrote her that he had "just arrived from the Upper Country", and was then located at the Sea House Hotel in New Westminster, and was planning to stay until Christmas, or possibly settle in the town. He found a good, long-term job as the Private Secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor. I uncovered an interesting passage involving him about the Lieutenant-Governor, Frank Barnard, during WW1, some time later after the card on offer was written:
"One such instance occurred when news of the sinking of the Cunard liner Lusitania reached Victoria on 8 May 1915 and resulted in a full-scale riot. Among those who lost their lives on board the ship were fifteen residents of Victoria including James Dunsmuir, the popular son of a former lieutenant-governor. Frustrated by Canada's lack of military success, an angry mob burned a German-owned brewery and beer-garden and ransacked the German Club causing damage of over $20,000. When rumours spread through the city that Mrs. Barnard, whose family was of German origin, was a secret sympathizer and had held a birthday party for the Kaiser at Government House, threats were made against her life and on 10 May a mob tried to storm the Lieutenant Governor's residence. Troops had to be called in to restore . . . order and prevent further violence. One irate citizen even wrote to Prime Minister Borden protesting that the "first lady of B.C. should not be a German" and demanding a full investigation 21 of the alleged birthday party. The situation was so tense that on 11 May Barnard issued a formal denial through a letter by his private secretary, H.J.S. Muskett, to the editor of the Colonist, who printed it the following day along with this terse comment: Under normal conditions the publication of this letter would have been needless, as the Lieutenant-Governor is too well known to be called upon to deny anything so foolish as the rumors referred to. The entire absence of truth in these stories ought to show the public how foolish and wrong it is to lend credence to every wild tale that somebody may set afloat." (ref: John Osborne, National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Manuscript #166, 1975).
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