About Quarrystone House
Twenty eight years of breakfasts on five country acres, on land that helped build the BC Parliament Buildings.
Bought sight unseen
Kelly and Barry Kazakoff had been looking for a property on Salt Spring for six months when Kelly’s father phoned. He had found the perfect place, he said. Five country acres on the crest of a ridge, expansive ocean and sunset views to the west, rolling sheep fields to the east.
They bought 1340 Sunset Drive without ever setting foot on it. Kelly’s parents had made the same move to the island fifteen years earlier and run a B&B of their own on Beddis Road, so the idea had deep roots. Quarrystone House opened its doors on July 1, 1998, built as its own building apart from the main house so that guests would have complete privacy: private entrances, ensuite bathrooms, fireplaces, balconies and patios.
From Coal Harbour to the Rock
Kelly and Barry met in 1984 at the Boathouse Restaurant in Coal Harbour, and spent the next seventeen years building and running restaurants together with the Spectra Group.
When the family moved to Salt Spring, Barry commuted to the Vancouver and Victoria restaurants for four years while Kelly established Quarrystone and grew her catering business. Once the B&B was on its feet they made the move complete, bought a waterfront property in Ganges, and opened the Oystercatcher Seafood Bar and Grill in 2002.
The farm and the restaurants have been connected ever since. The lambs you will meet in our pasture are born and raised here at Quarrystone, hand fed by us, and the farm supplies the restaurants to this day. Breakfast at the B&B comes out of the same thirty five years of professional cooking.
Stone that built parliaments
In the late 1800s two brothers, stonecutters, lived across the valley to the east and worked a quarry on the land where Quarrystone now stands.
They cut flagstone here, moved it down the front bank with horses and logs, and barged it to Victoria. Stone from this property went into the BC Parliament Buildings, and some of it travelled as far as the San Francisco Opera House. You are walking on the same flagstone in our patios and garden paths.
Every Name Has a Story
The Gallery
Named for Gordon Wales, the well known potter who owned the property before us. This was the site of his workshop and gallery.
The Flagstone
For the stone quarried here that built the Parliament Buildings, and that still paves our patios and grounds.
Treetops
For the massive arbutus that hangs over the room, and for Kelly’s parents’ B&B on Beddis Road, where this whole idea was planted.
Stonecutters
For the two brothers whose quarry gave this place its name and its history.
Kelly Will Meet You at the Door
Twenty eight years on, Kelly still runs Quarrystone herself, with Gabby at breakfast, a small herd of miniature goats, the sheep and lambs in the east pasture, and Yeti the Himalayan cat patrolling the flower pots. Guests tell us the same three things year after year: the breakfast, the view, and Kelly.
Come and see it
Book direct for the best rate, or call us. If the calendar shows nothing for your dates, we may still be able to help.