[1][2] Reverend Lord Archibald Douglas was a Roman Catholic priest who arranged the emigration of children to Canada as part of the child migration movement, whose stated goal was to place these children on farms, in sparsely settled parts of the world where they would receive training, and be able to start farms of their own.
[4] In 1874, Father Lord Archibald Douglas became Head of St Vincent's Home for Destitute Boys, in Brook Green Lane, Hammersmith, London.
He used his own private means to purchase and run the Home,[6][7] and was assisted for a time by his sister Gertrude.
Lord Archibald Douglas edited a monthly magazine called Boys and Girls and published by The Southwark Diocesan Council and Rescue Society, to encourage interest and support for its work.
[10] Lord Archibald Douglas was instrumental in the formation of the Canadian Catholic Emigration Society, which was headquartered in Westminster, London.
[14] On retirement, by which time he was close to bankruptcy,[15] he returned to his native Scotland, and St Vincent was given over to Father Douglas Hope.