I’m partially related to Rev. Thomas Crosby, missionary at Port Simpson, BC, husband of Emma Crosby who started the ‘Crosby Home for Girls’, which eventually became a residential school. As you said their primary reason for sharing their home with native girls was to keep them safe, prevent them from being sold for sex or abused by whites or natives. 4 of their own 8 children died of childhood illnesses, which were very common at the time.

I’m partially related to Rev. Thomas Crosby, missionary at Port Simpson, BC, husband of Emma Crosby who started the ‘Crosby Home for Girls’, which eventually became a residential school. As you said their primary reason for sharing their home with native girls was to keep them safe, prevent them from being sold for sex or abused by mischievous whites or natives. 4 of their own 8 children died of childhood illnesses, which were very common at the time.