Craigflower Elementary School
Craigflower Elementary School is a public elementary school located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is the current version of the oldest schoolhouse in Western Canada, and National Historic Site, Craigflower Schoolhouse, and the third school to be called "Craigflower". The third, and current Craigflower School was constructed in the same location in 1963, and has been in constant use for more than half a century. History Originally constructed as Maple Point School in 1854, on the order of Alexander MacKenzie, it was founded as part of Craigflower Farm, one of Western Canada's first farming communities. It provided education and boarding services to students until 1911 when it was replaced by a larger wooden schoolhouse built across the road. In 1915, the first Parent-Teacher Association in Western Canada was established at Craigflower — just prior to the first school strike in Western Canada, which took place in 1919. The school is located within the ances ...
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Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The city of Victoria is the 7th most densely populated city in Canada with . Victoria is the southernmost major city in Western Canada and is about southwest from British Columbia's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about from Seattle by airplane, seaplane, ferry, or the Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry, and from Port Angeles, Washington, by ferry across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Named for Queen Victoria, the city is one of the oldest in the Pacific Northwest, with British settlement beginning in 1843. The city has retained a large number of its historic buildings, in particular its two most famous landmarks, the Parliament Buildings (finished in 1897 and home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia ...
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