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The fonds consists of A.C. Lincoln's photographs and film footage of events at Fairbridge Farm School. Fonds also includes a register of the Fairbridge Farm School Wolf Cub Pack and miscellaneous correspondence and brochures relating to Fairbridge Farm School.

The fonds consists of correspondence regarding child welfare organizations and minutes and correspondence of the British Columbia Board of Governors of the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, 1946-1949. Also includes diaries, documents and research notes concerning the family of Annie Margaret Angus, especially her father Major William James Anderson. Materials consist mostly of diaries (1885-1924) of Major Anderson and his wife Laura, which cover his career in the British Army and the family's efforts in establishing a fruit orchard in the Kettle Valley/Rock Creek district of British Columbia. They also include papers regarding W.J. Anderson's military career, family history, Annie M. Angus' correspondence and research notes regarding here family's history, and her annotations and notes on her father's diaries. Also included are two family photograph albums.

Autobiographical account of childhood in Kettle Valley, 1909-1919; correspondence concerning Laura Holland Scholarship Fund at the University of British Columbia, 1950-1956; and notes re: Vancouver Children's Aid Society and other child welfare organizations. Also includes minutes and correspondence of the British Columbia Board of Governors of the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, 1946-1949.

The item is an autograph book kept by Patrick Webb, while he was a trainee at Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School (Cowichan Station, B.C.) and at the Fintry Fairbridge Training Farm near Vernon B.C.

CALL NUMBER: T4216:0001 track 1 item 01
SUMMARY: Radio program including an interview by unidentified commentator with Miss Katie O'Neil, farm mother, about: Fairbridge Farm School, backgrounds of various students, student duties. <10 minutes 30 seconds>
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SUMMARY: Radio program including interview by an unidentified commentator with students and farm manager John Brown about: Fairbridge farm School, duties; dairy farming, horses, growing crops. <14 minutes>
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SUMMARY: Radio program including interview by an unidentified commentator with principal of Fairbridge Farm School, Colonel H.T. Logan, about: creation of farm school; child immigration from Britain; students enlisting in war; followed by Colonel Logan reading letters from various students fighting in war; followed by interviews by unidentified commentator with various female students, about: school, favourite subjects. <11 minutes>
CALL NUMBER: T4216:0002 track 1
SUMMARY: Radio program (broadcast 1942-05-22) including a documentary with an unidentified speaker about the principal's Bible class, morning prayers; including sounds of school bell, children's voices, children saying Grace before dinner; assistant principal W.J. Garnett reads "daily orders" about upcoming basketball games, horseshoes, morning prayers, birthday greetings; talks by Mr. Tamkin [?], school janitor, and Kenny Ryan [?], Ronny Alton [?], Bob Bennet [?], students, and principal, about a fire brigade, cleaning furnaces, hospital furnaces, student cottages, duties in dairy barn; interview with female students about their hometowns in England, duties, favourite subjects, hobbies. <28 minutes>
CALL NUMBER: T4216:0002 track 2: [blank].

The item is a video of the 50th reunion of the Fairbridge Farm School at Cowichan Station, near Duncan, BC.

Records of the Fairbridge Alumni Association and predecessor organization, Old Fairbridgian Association. Members of the association were formerly trainees at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, ca. 1935-1951. Records include correspondence (1946-1975), minutes (1947-1970), newsletters and gazettes (1950-1954), constitution and financial reports 1964-1974), account books and receipts, and addresses of alumni, ca. 1953-1962. The records were maintained by the Rev. Thomas E. Speed, a Fairbridge alumnus. Photographs transferred to Visual Records Division.

Newspaper cuttings concerning Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School and Old Fairbridgians, ca. 1934-1983; copies of provincial government statutes and regulations re: welfare institutions, etc., 1937-1948; correspondence to Miss Katie O'Neill (farm school cottage mother), 1936-1941, 1960. Also a photocopy of a certificate from the Fairbridge Society in Britain to the Fairbridge Alumni Association, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Fairbridge Farm School at Cowichan Station. 1 leaf.

The series consists of two albums of photographs from the period when Lincoln was on staff at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School at Cowichan Station, (near Duncan, B.C.) from 1935 to 1939. It also includes class photos taken by a professional photographer, and images of the school (including an aerial photo) on postcards. Subjects include: individual students and staff (many identified), group photos, Wolf Cubs, Boy Scouts, sports and games, outdoor and farming activities, and building interiors and exteriors. The series includes a photograph of a visit by Lord Tweedsmuir and a portrait of Kingsley Fairbridge. The series also includes images of Cowichan Bay and other Cowichan Valley locations.

The series consists of letters describing life at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School on Vancouver Island (Cowichan Station) in the 1940s. Consists of letters written to family, friends and colleagues by Mary Lenore Nichols, and some received by her, while teaching at the school from 1943 to 1948.

The fonds consists of letters describing life at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School.

The file consists of 12 postcards that were found behind the mantle of Strathcona cottage, Fairbridge Farm school. The postcards are dated between 1938 and 1942 and are addressed to various inhabitants of Strathcona cottage.

Amateur film. Footage of Fairbridge Farm children at work and at play at the Cowichan Station school, including farming scenes, Guy Fawkes Day celebration and costume parade, harvesting, cutting hay, swimming, baseball, picnicking, and an outdoor ceremony (possibly graduation?) at the Fairbridge Chapel. This reel appears, in part, to be a compilation of shorter film items made by A.C. Lincoln and credited to "Fairbridge Pictures". The titled segments are: "Autumn scenes, Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, Cowichan Station, V.I., B.C."; "The day with 'Boy'" (about a sheep herding border collie at a nearby farm) "Down by the Kelvin Creek" (children playing in creek, and playing baseball); "Hay Ho!" (on the hay harvest); "Our Water Babies" (more water sports); and "The Picnic, Cowichan Bay" (which shows the children walking to Cowichan Bay, eating lunch, swimming and diving, and visiting the abandoned "Butter Church" at Comiaken Hill).

The fonds consists of correspondence, reports, newsletters and case files as well as operational records regarding agricultural work on the farm site, a roll book, a scrapbook, loose pages from the Punishment Book, photographs and maps.

Amateur film. Footage of: land clearing for, and construction and dedication of, Fairbridge Chapel; more children arriving from Great Britain; Lower Island sports meet, 1939; farming activities at Fairbridge; recreation; Boy Scout and Cub troops; Christmas celebrations; visit of Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir; Royal visit to Victoria, 1939.

Register book of Prince of Wales Fairbridge School Wolf Pack (1936), plus miscellaneous correspondence and brochures relating to the Fairbridge Farm School. Alfred C. Lincoln was employed as gardener and agricultural instructor at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School at Cowichan Station from 1935 to 1939. He was also leader of the Fairbridge Wolf Cub Pack and Boy Scout troop formed in 1936.

The fonds consists of Vera Hance's photographs of Fairbridge Farm School at Fintry, B.C.