But even in a Church Missionary Society utopia, there still were dangers that pushed the cultural remodellers towards residential training institutions. Duncan established a boarding house for girls, presided over by himself, to remove young women from what he regarded as the moral dangers of the village and to place them in a setting in which they would learn proper behavior.

    Duncan and the CMS had made a beachhead for Anglicans at Port Simpson and Metlakatla. Soon their presence in the Pacific Mission Theater was augmented by a fledging boarding school among the Kwagiulth.

    The final missionary presence on the northwest coast, both chronologically and in numbers, was that of the Methodist Church. Although a number of Methodist clergymen over the years labored to establish missions and schools, the Wesleyan initiative soon became identified principally with Englishman Rev. Thomas Crosby of Port Simpson.

Much like Duncan at Metlakatla, Crosby strongly influenced the mores and practices of the Tsimshian during the early years of his ministry. He, too, soon concluded that it would be necessary, even with a 'convert' population that had invited him among them, to establish residential facilities to protect some of the young Tsimshian from others. In 1879 he and his wife Emma established the Crosby Girls' Home 'to save some of the girls from a life of utter wretchedness and infamy.'