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1779-1943 (Creation)
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The McKenzie Family collection consists of the business and personal papers of Kenneth McKenzie (1811-1874), his ancestors and descendants, including correspondence, notebooks, diaries, and other papers. It documents over one hundred and fifty years of family history. The collection is divided into those records relating to Vancouver Island (Boxes 1-19) and those relating to Scotland (Boxes 20-25). The Vancouver Island papers contain correspondence and documents pertaining to Lakehill Farm, the settlement of estates, official appointments, and other family matters. They also chronicle the organization and operation of Craigflower Farm and, to a lesser extent, the other farms operated by the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company on Vancouver Island. The Scottish papers document family events, relationships and property from 1779 to 1852. Included is an extensive record of the protracted settlement of the estate of William Blair (Boxes 22-23). William Blair was the father of Janet McKenzie (Blair).
Born in Edinburgh October 5, 1811, the son of Dr. Kenneth McKenzie (1786-1844) and Janet Blair (1784-1820), Kenneth McKenzie was raised and educated in the same city. Later he moved to his father's estate of Rentonhall, Haddingtonshire, East Lothian where he managed the operations. The estate was sold in 1851 and McKenzie, his wife Agnes Russell (1823-1897) and their six children emigrated to Vancouver Island in 1853. McKenzie had been hired by the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company to oversee the establishment and operation of Craigflower Farm near Victoria. In 1866 the family, now with eight children, moved to Lakehill Farm just north of Victoria. Kenneth McKenzie died there April 10, 1874. A comprehensive biography of Kenneth McKenzie by William R. Sampson is in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, X, pp.477-479. A rough genealogy of the McKenzie Family is provided in the hardcopy version of the finding aid.
Numbers appearing at the upper left corner of documents are references to the old catalogue system and should not be used for citation.
Boxes 1-4: Kenneth McKenzie (1811-1874) and family: correspondence inward
Box 5: McKenzie, Kenneth (1846-1906): correspondence inward
Box 6: Kenneth McKenzie (1811-1874) and Kenneth McKenzie (1846-1906): correspondence outward
Box 7: Kenneth McKenzie (1811-1874): notebooks and personal papers
Box 8: McKenzie Family: notebooks, diaries, correspondence and personal papers
Box 9: McKenzie Family: material relating to Lakehill property
Boxes 10-18: Craigflower Farm
Box 19: Puget's Sound Agricultural Company
Boxes 20-25: McKenzie family: material relating to Scotland. N.B. See also box 25 for further material relating to the estate of William Blair, d.1800
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- Agriculture--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Barkerville (B.C.)--Social life and customs
- Business records--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Esquimalt (B.C.)--Fortifications, military installations, etc.
- Frontier and pioneer life--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Hudson's Bay Company--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Hudson's Bay Company--Administration
- Indians--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Working class--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Land settlement--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Medical records
- Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Sawmills--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Schools--British Columbia
- Schools--British Columbia--Victoria
- Scotland--Social life and customs
- Scots--British Columbia
- Livestock--Breeding
- Women--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Bakeries
- Vancouver Island (B.C.)--Social life and customs
- Farm life--British Columbia
- British Columbia--Emigration and immigration
- Voting
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- Blenkinsop, George, 1822-1904 (Subject)
- Burnaby, Robert, 1828-1878 (Subject)
- Colville, Andrew, 1779-1856 (Subject)
- Dallas, Alexander Grant, 1818-1882 (Subject)
- Dobbin, Dorothea Ann Blair, 1848-1895 (Subject)
- Douglas, James, Sir, 1803-1877 (Subject)
- Finlayson, Roderick, 1818-1892 (Subject)
- Goodfellow, John Christie, 1890-1968 (Subject)
- Helmcken, John Sebastian, 1824-1920 (Subject)
- Langford, Edward Edwards, 1809-1895 (Subject)
- MacKay, Joseph William, 1829-1900 (Subject)
- Mallandaine, Edward, 1827-1905 (Subject)
- McAulay, Donald, d. 1868 (Subject)
- McDonald, William John, 1832-1916 (Subject)
- McKenzie, Agnes, 1823-1897 (Subject)
- McKenzie, Agnes, 1842-1927 (Subject)
- McKenzie, Andrew Colville, 1854- (Subject)
- McKenzie, Janet, 1784-1820 (Subject)
- McKenzie, Kenneth, 1748-1824 (Subject)
- McKenzie, Kenneth, 1786-1844 (Subject)
- McKenzie, Kenneth, 1811-1874 (Subject)
- McKenzie, Kenneth, 1846-1906 (Subject)
- McKenzie, Robert Gregory, 1856-1913 (Subject)
- McKenzie, Wilhelmina Ann Blair, 1852-1928 (Subject)
- McKenzie, William Blair, d. 1850 (Subject)
- Morwick, David (Subject)
- Munro, Alexander, 1824-1911 (Subject)
- Pearse, Benjamin William, 1832-1902 (Subject)
- Pemberton, Joseph Despard, 1821-1893 (Subject)
- Pike, Caleb (Subject)
- Richards, Sir George Henry, 1820-1896 (Subject)
- Russell, Thomas, 1836-1912 (Subject)
- Shepherd, John Grant (Subject)
- Skinner, Thomas James, d. 1889 (Subject)
- Smith, William Gregory (Subject)
- Stahlschmidt, Thomas Lett (Subject)
- Tod, John, 1794-1882 (Subject)
- Tolmie, William Fraser, 1812-1886 (Subject)
- Tuzo, Letitia (Subject)
- Vancouver Island. Colonial Secretary (Subject)
- Vancouver Island. Office of the Surveyor General (Subject)
- Watson, Alexander Burleigh, 1857-1947 (Subject)
- Watson, Alexander, d. 1892 (Subject)
- Watson, Jessie, 1844-1882 (Subject)
- Watson, Kenneth (Subject)
- Puget Sound Agricultural Company (Subject)
- Great Britain. Royal Navy (Subject)
- Pemberton, Augustus Frederick (Subject)