The previous chapter has examined the idea of Christian colonisation as promoted through the writing of colonial reformers including Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Samuel Hinds, and religious philanthropists including Caroline Chisholm and General Booth of the Salvation Army. As we have seen, the anti-colonial lobby who struggled to prevent the colonisation of New Zealand were defeated, which opened the way to systematic or planned colonisation of British colonial territory not only in New Zealand but also in Canada and parts of Africa. This chapter looks at the Christian colonies that were planned and imagined in the course of the nineteenth century and which were in some ways the culmination of the colonial missionary movement. The first Christian experiment in colonisation in the second British empire was that of Sierra Leone, a settlement intended to provide a home for liberated slaves. However, commercial schemes of colonisation were responsible for promoting many more, a number of which succeeded in some at least of their objectives. The two most ambitious Christian colonies in the later British empire were the Free Church of Scotland settlement of Otago and the Anglican settlement of Canterbury, both in the South Island of New Zealand. While historians, particularly those in New Zealand, have been right to question the strength of the religious element in systematic colonisation, Christian settlement has left a distinctive imprint on New Zealand society, which was so frequently imagined as not just a part of Greater Britain but a ‘Better Britain’.