Canning Highway Bethel Home, Applecross, was established in 1966 by Bethel Inc, an independent mission society, for up to 12 Aboriginal students, male and female, going to high school in Perth. It had closed by 1982.
Sources used to compile this entry: Information Services, Department for Community Development, Signposts: A Guide for Children and Young People in Care in WA from 1920, Government of Western Australia, 2004, https://signposts.communities.wa.gov.au//pdf/pdf.aspx; Shedley, Don and Shedley, Meg, Black and white best together: the Bethel story, Hesperian Press, Carlisle, Western Australia, 2007. pp.68-93..
Prepared by: Debra Rosser
Created: 15 March 2011, Last modified: 25 June 2014
Last updated: 17 October 2023
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