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Craigflower Schoolhouse and Farm Collection
About the historic site
Craigflower Farm was an operation run by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) under the subsidiary Puget Sound Agricultural Company (PSAC). Kenneth McKenzie was employed by the HBC to recruit labourers from his Scottish home to emigrate and work on the farm. The families reached Victoria after a five month long voyage on the Norman Morison in 1852, and established the Craigflower Farm and Schoolhouse in the years soon after. The original farmhouse manor building and the schoolhouse remain today. For events and visitor information visit the BC Heritage Branch web site at www.heritage.gov.bc.ca
About the collection
The artifact collection at Craigflower Schoolhouse and Farm includes 450 farming and schoolhouse artifacts. Most of the items were used by the McKenzie family in the farmhouse, or by other inhabitants at the Craigflower Craigflower schoolhouse during the 1860's.
About the web site and on-line collection
The web site Teaching, Learning and Farming at Craigflower Farm has information related to the Craigflower historic site. It includes virtual tours of the farmhouse, farm buildings and the schoolhouse, biographies of the McKenzie and labourer families, and a Teacher's Corner made for school aged kids and teachers. The on-line collection of artifacts is searchable and contains digitized images.
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