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The Old Stone Church

The item is a painting of a building by Hilda Vincent Foster. The painting depicts the old stone church on Comiaken Hill, near Duncan, Vancouver Island. According to the label on the back of the painting, the church was constructed between 1870 and 1872 by Rev. Peter Rondeault, and became disused in 1880. The painting was done in 1966.

[Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School] : [miscellaneous footage, ca. 1936-1940]

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).