Come for the garden party and stay for the ghosts! Bring a snack to share and join us first at Carol's haunted house for tea and talk in the quarry garden with the many spirits who wander through. Investigate the 1930's house where children play tricks and have been recorded merrily remarking about a TV show "I can see the pandas!" Items get moved, flowers taken out of the vase and dropped feet away, the stove vigorously shaken banging, a gentleman spoke out the air, an apparition appeared in the hallway and countless E.V.P. were recorded. Bring your recording devices, your eletromagnetic recorders, your whatever recorders and run Spirit Talker or Ghost Tube apps to really enjoy the friendly spirits here. Fun! Then after the a tea party head down 5 blocks away to the historic Craigflower Manor (at the Gorge by the Admirals bridge). Meet with our friendly and knowledgeable guide, Jillan, at 2 p.m. for a 45 minute tour! You have Jillan's kind permission to record and chat with the spirits so go ahead as you hear them on Ghost Tube or Spirit Talker. She enjoyed the funnier replys on our ghost apps last time. The Manor is B.C. oldest house so you are sure to feel the history and the past residents of the McKenzie clan. Follow the tour up with a gander through the Manor garden. It leads to the water's edge when Kenneth McKennzie first set foot in 1870 for the Hudson's Bay Co. Gather additional ghostly voices brought to you by the spirit conductivity of the flowing waters. Maybe you'll be really lucky or really freaked by witnessing a curious apparition. Either way it will be beautiful day to get out, socialize and have a unique adventure. Join us, Saturday, August 9th, 1 p.m. See you then!
Carol 2886 Parkview Dr.
(Closest intersection Tillicum and Gorge.)
Admin: Victoria Ghost Gatherers.
The Craigflower History: https://www.communitystories.ca/v1/pm_v2.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=0&ex=404&sl=7450&pos=1&pf=1#:~:text=Kenneth%20McKenzie%20was%20born%20in,Craigflower%20Farm%20never%20was%20profitable.
The Craigflower Manor and Craigflower Schoolhouse are National Historic Sites of Canada located in View Royal, British Columbia (the Manor) and Saanich (the Schoolhouse) near Victoria. The centerpiece of each historic site is a 19th-century building — a manor and schoolhouse commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company to provide education and lodging for their employees. Built as part of the agricultural community Craigflower Farm, the buildings served as a focal point for the community into the modern era;[1][2] they remain open to the public today as museums devoted to the colonial history of Victoria.[3] The sites also have unique archaeological merit, encompassing three distinct periods, and types, of human habitation which span thousands of years.[4] In addition, the existing structures have great historical and cultural value, remaining some of the best, and last, examples of their kind in Canada. These factors combine to make these two sites important National Historic Sites, and have been given government protection for the public trust.
