THE
BRITISH HOME CHILDREN
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1927 - 1984 Search |
1994 - 1999 Search |
2000 Publication |
2000 - Present |
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17/09/1909 – 17/09/1994 A British Home Child |
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3,400 Claimed by Descendants 7,000
Found on Indentures
5,000 Found on 1901/1911 Can Census 4,000
WW1 Orphan Soldiers |
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THE BRITISH CHILD EMIGRATION
SCHEME TO CANADA (1870-1957)
100,000 British Home Children
(alleged orphans) were sent to Canada by over 50 British Child Care
organizations. These 4-15
year old children worked as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants
until they were 18 years old. The
British Child Care organizations professed a dominant motive of providing these
children with a better life than they would have had in Britain, but they had
other ignoble and pecuniary motives.
They rid themselves of an unwanted segment of
their society and profited when they sold these children to Canadian
farmers. Siblings in care
in Britain were separated from their families and each other. Siblings were separated from each other
when they were sent to Canada.
Most never saw each other again.
Many spent their lives trying to identify their parents and find their
siblings and most were unsuccessful.
An unknown number of children ran away from their indentured labour in
Canada to the United States.
Millions of Americans may be descended from British Home Children. The 4-5 million Canadian/American
descendants of the British Home Children have 20 million British Grandparents,
Uncles, and Aunts. How could this
many people not know they are related to one another? Their mutual searches have been hampered by the
unwillingness of the childcare organizations to readily release vital personal
information.
Perry Snow BA (Hons) MA Clinical
Psychologist
4103 Centre Street NW
Calgary Alberta Can T2E 2Y6
Phone/Fax: 403 288 4477 Email: Perry
Snow
