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Book excerpt: Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures


Some might say it’s preposterous to think an overview of a massive story repository such as Craigdarroch Castle can be reduced to not even two dozen objects. …
Why twenty-one objects? The number may seem a bit arbitrary, but it comes from the desire to vary the story of the castle’s nineteenth-century beginnings and carry it forward to the current century for contemporary readers and for future generations, with each object used as a hook on which to hang a story and offer some context and tangential information.
Craigdarroch Castle houses more than just the stories of the shipping, railway, and coal baron (and western Canada’s richest man, for a time) Robert Dunsmuir, his wife, Joan, and the fractious, fractured family he left behind. It also cradles the stories of the maimed and shell-shocked men sent home by the Empire after the Great War and cared for from 1919 to 1921 at Craigdarroch Military Hospital, as well as those of Victoria College, the Victoria Cons ....

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Canada's castles more than hold their own


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After more than a year of pulling up the drawbridge, what better time to lower our metaphorical defences, lift our heads above the parapets, open the stable door … and storm a few made-in-Canada castles?
We’ll never match Europe for grandiose piles piled high on mountaintops or commanding an empire’s white cliffs, but we can more than hold our own albeit on a smaller scale in the realm of ramparts, follies and crenellated towers.
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