| Feature Type: | Post Office - A Canada Post designation; the post office name may or may not be the same as the name of the place where it is located. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Relative Location: | E side Portage Inlet at head of Gorge Waters, NW of Victoria Harbour, Victoria Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°26'59"N, 123°25'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Craigflower (Post Office) adopted 1 May 1934 on National Defence sheet 415a, Victoria. (Ottawa file OBF 1449). Rescinded 16 January 1958 on 92B/6. The name CRAIGFLOWER was rescinded 16 January 1958 on 92B/6. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Craigflower Post Office was opened 16 March 1926, named after the adjacent Craigflower Farm, a 900-acre farm established in 1853 by Kenneth Mackenzie for the Puget Sound Agricultural Company (a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company); the farm had been named in turn after Craigflower in England, the home of then-HBC governor Andrew Colville. Craigflower Post Office amalgamated as a sub office within Victoria Post Office 15 August 1940. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"The place selected for the farm was on the banks of Victoria Arm [sic], so that a free waterway to Victoria, then commonly spoken of as 'the Fort' would be available. The establishment was named Craigflower in 1853 by MacKenzie, after the farm of Governor Colville in England, then-Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company." Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |