A mailing list for those interested in researching the 100,000 British Home Children who were emigrated to Canada by 50 child care organizations to work as indentured farm labourers (1870-1940). Archives: browse or search.
Dedicated to the Home Children that were sent to Canada between 1869 and 1948. The Canadian Centre was founded to assist the Home Children and their families in locating their real identities, confirming documents (i.e., birth certificate) and to help them reunite with living family members where possible.
Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Members of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa are locating and indexing the names of these Home Children found in passenger lists in the custody of the Library and Archives Canada.