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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.

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.