Caffery Point


Caffery Point (48˚20'00" 123˚36'00" N side of Becher Bay, S end of Vancouver I). Mary Ann Caffery (1853–1936) and her seven children moved to E Sooke from Prevost I in 1888 after the death of her sea capt husband, Thomas Caffery. They were a pioneer farming family, and the Caffery House, built by James Caffery (1874–1938) in the 1890s, is one of the district’s heritage homes. James and his younger brother Joseph Peter (1882–1918) are listed as sealers in the 1901 census. Frank Caffery...

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