Craigdarroch Castle

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This article is for the Canadian mansion. For the Scottish house, see Craigdarroch.

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Plaque in front of the castle.

Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada is a historic, Victorian-era mansion. It was constructed in the 1890s as a family residence for the wife of wealthy coal baron Robert Dunsmuir, modelled on the ancestral Dunsmuir estate in Scotland. The Castle is currently owned by the Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society and is open to the public.

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