 In 1871 he opened a night refuge for homeless children in Renfrew Street, Glasgow.Then in 1876, using charitable donations, Quarrier began to build the Orphan Homes of Scotland on a piece of land now in Inverclyde and between the villages of Kilmacolm and Bridge of Weir, falling within the civil parish of the former.By the 1890s 'Quarrier's Village', as it is now known, was home to 34 cottages, a school, a church and a fire station.