Craigflower Schoolhouse presently stands on an archaeological site which is about 2,500 years old.

Long before the arrival of the Craigflower settlers in the mid-1800s, the Kosapsom families occupied this area.

The Kosapsom People regularly used the Gorge and its adjacent lands for shellfish collection and processing during a 5,000 year period prior to European contact.

The descendants of the Kosapsom are the Esquimalt People whose land is nearby.

The Kosapsom Nations ancestors left behind ash deposits, the shells from the seafood they ate and used, and tools made from stone and bone.

The oldest artifact found so far is a crystal quartz microblade (like a small stone razor blade) dating to approximately 2,500 years ago).

The Puget Sound Agricultural Company, owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, was begun to establishfarms to reduce the need for importing goods from places like England.

Begun in 1853, the Craigflower site was the first European farm on Vancouver Island. The Schoolhouse is the oldest standing school in western Canada.