The two youngest McKenzie children were born after the family moved to Craigflower from Scotland. This bedroom has been set up to represent a typical nursery of the 1850s and 1860s, although none of the objects in the room are from Craigflower.


The boys' names were Andrew Colville McKenzie (named after the Hudson's Bay Company Governor in London at the time) and Robert.


It is known from records at Craigflower Schoolhouse that the boys frequently played truant, probably taking the opportunity

to go for horseback rides or hunt and fish in the forests and streams that surrounded their home.

Incidentally, not only did Kenneth and Agnes name one of their sons after Andrew Colville, the Hudson's Bay Company Governor; the name Craigflower itself was the name of Colville's estate in Scotland. One wonders whether McKenzie's flattery was noticed in London?


Classroom activity: Make a corncob doll.
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