Alexander Dunsmuir (1853-1900) who managed his father Robert's business operations in San Francisco. On a trip in August 1886 north to Vancouver Island for the opening of the E&N Railway he passed through Dunsmuir, California. He promised and then delivered, a beautiful multi-tiered iron fountain with a nymph on top. Sometime in the early 1900s the fountain water was left running during a freeze up, and the nymph cracked. She went missing and was never seen again. Early in the 1970s the remaining Dunsmuir fountain was moved to the Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens, in north Dunsmuir, where it can be seen today. The plaque around the base of the fountain reads "Presented by Alexander Dunsmuir of the Wellington Collieries British Columbia".