"Built in 1912 as a single family home this building would later serve as the city's first Children's Hospital which operated at this location between 1927 to 1933. Skillfully designed for its prominent corner location, with a notable perimeter stone wall, the building is a landmark in Marpole. It has elements of the Edwardian Builder style and the Craftsman style. The City of Vancouver completed a rehabilitation and addition to the building, that was designed by the Iredale Partnership, for Abbeyfield seniors housing in 1993."

Abbeyfield Vancouver

The Heritage House was built in 1913 as the home of a Marpole businessman and his family. It was written up in “Vanishing Vancouver”. It served for a few years as the first Childrens' Hospital in Vancouver, and subsequently was converted into suites. The Coach House was purpose-built in 1993, while the Heritage House was being renovated to its present configuration of common rooms and single rooms with ensuite bathrooms. The two Houses of Vancouver Abbeyfield opened as a home for seniors in 1993. This is our 30th year of operation!

Abbeyfield International

Abbeyfield began in the London Borough of Bermondsey in 1956. Its founder was Major Carr-Gomm, who resigned his commission in the Coldstream Guards to start a charity caring for lonely elderly in the East End of London.

Abbeyfield was the name of the street where the first volunteers met, and the name commemorates a large and charitable medieval abbey which had been dissolved by King Henry VIII some four hundred years earlier.

Abbeyfield Canada

Abbeyfield Houses Society of Canada was established in 1984. The first House in Sidney, BC, was established in 1987. There are currently 40 Canadian Societies and 25 Houses operating or under construction. The National Head office is located in Toronto, Ontario.