BRITISH HOME CHILD
Welcome to 2015
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A SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP of THE ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Welcome to the OGS British Home Child - Special Interest Group
From 1869 to 1939 various workhouses, sheltering homes, orphanages and child care organizations in Great Britain immigrated over 100,000 orphaned, abandoned, pauper children ages 1 to 18 to Canada. Known as the British Home Children (BHC), life for these children coming alone to Canada to work as domestics and farm labourers forging ahead in a new land was not always easy.
Of the over 50 sending agencies, some of the more well known names are Rye, Macpherson, Fegan, Quarriers, Barnardo, Middlemore, Catholic Emigration Society, Salvation Army, Church of England Waif & Strays.
It is estimated that 12%, over 4 million, of the Canadian population is a descendant of a Home Child. Home Children Descendants now live worldwide.Welcome to 2015 - Watch for new articles.
Kingston Branch, second Home Children publication.
Here is the title and a brief synopsis.
If you do not want to write a story the Members Only section can post your information, just scan the data, send it in and it can be posted. Check out the interesting items displayed.
Remember, it is only as good as you make it.
you have a story on a Home Child, a speaker on British Home Child, would
you like to share? Let us know.
Email BHC-SIG BHC@ogs.on.ca
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