The Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School was established in 1935 and the site consisted of several dormitories, dinning hall, staff homes, a chapel, schoolhouse, office building, barns and farm outbuildings. On May 27, 1981, the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School Chapel was designated as an historic building. Today, many of the original buildings have been renovated as private homes. The homes and grounds are operated as a strata complex, where volunteers maintain the grounds and remaining heritage buildings.
"Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School was part of a philanthropic scheme aimed at strengthening the British Empire and improving the condition of underprivileged British children, an idea conceived by Kingsley Fairbridge. The plan was to resettle selected British children in overseas dominions. The Prince of Wales school opened in 1935 near Duncan, B.C. Over 300 children passed through Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm school in its first ten years of operation. The estate was eventually sold in the early 1950s." - History Fairbridge Farm School. For more history on the Fairbridge Farm School click Here
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