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1941-1949 (Creation)
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- Fairbridge Farm School (Fintry, B.C.)
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0.5 cm of textual records
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The Fairbridge Farm Movement was started by Kingsley Fairbridge, who, along with fifty members of the Colonial Club, met in Oxford, England in 1909. Their purpose was to train underprivileged English slum children to become farmers by sending them to the colonies to attend agricultural colleges. The Child Emigration Society soon sent Mr. Fairbridge to Australia to open the first Fairbridge Farm School. Under the system, seven-to-twelve year old boys were trained to be farmers. At the age of sixteen, the boys were sent out to work, and the system found jobs for them. The first school in Canada was opened in 1935 in Duncan, B.C. In 1938, Capt. Dunwaters donated the Fintry estate to the Fairbridge Farm Schools organization. The gift included a large stock of cattle, 5000 acres of land, a house, and orchards. At the time, the gift was valued at $1,000,000. Fairbridge Farm schools were financed mainly from Britain and when strict pound sterling export regulations were established after the second world war, the farm at Fintry found itself without sufficient funds to operate. In 1948, the school closed.
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Fonds consists of the records of the Fairbridge Training Farm school, located in Fintry, from 1941-1949. Includes correspondence to and from Mr. & Mrs. Angus Gray, managers and caretakers of the property, in regard to the activities taking place at the school. Of particular note is the 1948 letter to Mr. Gray from a Logan Mayhew, the chairman of the B.C. Board of Governors, in which the disposal of the Fintry school and property is discussed.
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BCAUL control number: VERN-17