A Hudson's Bay Company Model Farm
This history of the days of Hudson’s Bay Company rule on Vancouver Island includes stories of their troublesome sawmill at Millstream Falls and their 900-acre Craigflower Farm. The manor house and schoolhouse still stand on their original sites on the shores of the scenic Gorge waterway.
Now part of the Town of View Royal, the area also boasts other well-known heritage buildings, the Four Mile and Six Mile roadhouses of the 1850s as well as the Royal Navy’s nearby 'Magazine Island' (Cole Island) with its remaining 19th century buildings.
The book includes recollections from early pioneer families as well as research from Colonial records, HBC archival records, and contemporary letters and reminiscences.
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 Craigflower Country:
A History of View Royal, 1850-1950
Author: Maureen Duffus
Published 1993, Victoria, BC
ISBN 1-895332-08-7
Soft cover, 126 pp. plus index, bibliography
Includes photos, illustrations and maps throughout text
$17.75 CDN
A few copies of the first edition are still available
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