Fairbridge Chapel

In 1935, the Child Emigration Society of Great Britain (Fairbridge Farm School Society) purchased the 405 hectare Pemberlea Farm located near Cowichan Station on southern Vancouver Island. During the spring of that year the first four cottages in the home site were constructed for the initial party of forty-one children sent from Britain, arriving on September 25th. A total of 329 children migrated from Great Britain.

The Farm School was largely self-contained having its own school, hospital, dining hall, laundry, Anglican chapel and other buildings for staff. As well, the working farm had gardens, orchards, a prized dairy herd, pigs, sheep and chickens. (Fairbridge Canada website)