 |
 |
 |
|
| Craigflower was one of Vancouver Island's first European farming communities, established in 1853 along Victoria's Gorge Waterway. Long before the arrival of the Craigflower settlers in the mid-1800s, the Kosapsom families occupied this area, with their people using the Gorge waterway and its adjacent lands for shellfish collection and processing during the 5,000 year period prior to European contact. The descendants of the Kosapsom are the Esquimalt Nation, whose people still harvest shellfish, salmon and herring from the tidal waters that separate the Manor from the Schoolhouse. |
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
|
