A decorator, James Roker came to Canada in 1906 and to Beaurepaire in 1920, till 1925 as a summer resident and then became a year-round one.  He and Kennedy Crone were instrumental in getting the Chaffee’s house, corner of Pine and Fieldfare, to be used as a school before the Protestant school was built in 1924 at the corner of Church and Fieldfare.  Mrs Winnifred Roker-Downs said her father convinced his wife to try staying for a winter. If she liked it, they would become permanent residents and they did, but she had conditions: such as the building of a school …

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