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Crofton was founded in 1902 by Henry Croft , who owned the nearby copper mine in Mt. Sicker. He built a smelter on the coast, to send the refined copper away. The smelter closed in 1907, and the town declined. But in 1954, a pulp and paper mill was built. Owned until 2001 by Fletcher Challenge , it is now owned by NorskeCanada. There has been controversy over the mill and its burning, far enough that on September 17th, 2004, Randy Bachman organized a "Clean Air Concert" to provide money for a study of the mill emissions. There is a ferry that connects Crofton to Vesuvius on Salt Spring Island.