Craigflower Manor

Craigflower Manor is a colonial-era farmhouse near Victoria, built in the 1850s for the bailiff of one of the earliest agricultural settlements established on Vancouver Island by a fur-trading company. Its timber construction and imported furnishings reflect the transplantation of British rural life to the Pacific coast. The nearby schoolhouse, among the oldest surviving in western Canada, completes the heritage site. Together they interpret the fragile beginnings of European settlement on the island.