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Barnardo's

In 1870, Dr. Barnardo opened his first home for children in London

British Home Child Group International

British Home Children - Veterans Affairs Canada

Between 1869 and 1948, over 100,000 children arrived in Canada from Great Britain as part of the British Child Emigration Movement.

British Home Children Advocacy & Research Association

A Canadian Not-for-Profit organization that strives to catalog Home Child information and Home Children stories, to reconnect families unjustly torn apart by these migrant programs, and to promote the story of the Home Children across the world. It is the first organization to use social media to promote the story of our Home Children with unprecedented and unparalleled success.

British Home Children in Canada

British Home Children in Canada

Site published and maintained by the British Home Children Advocacy & Research Association.

Catholic Child Welfare Council (1929 - 2003)

The Catholic Child Welfare Council was founded in 1929 in Britain.

Child Migrants Trust

Over 130,000 children had been deported from Britain and shipped off to a new life in distant parts of the Empire. This long history of compulsory migration ended in 1967 when post-war child migration drew to a close. The Trust provides a highly professional, specialised service, reuniting Britain

Empty Cradles

A book by Margaret Humphreys.

Golden Bridge: Young Immigrants to Canada, 1833-1939

A book by Marjorie Kohli.

Home Children in Canada

Resources for searching Home Children in Canada.

Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924

A book by Joy Parr.

Library and Archives Canada - Home Children, 1869-1932

Between 1869 and 1932, over 100,000 children were sent from Britain to Canada through assisted juvenile emigration. These migrants are called “home children” because most went from an emigration agency's home for children in Britain to its Canadian receiving home. The children were placed with families in rural Canada.

Library and Archives Canada / Biblioth

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.

List of Girls in Miss Rye's Peckham Homes 1881

Search for ancestors in a list of orphaned and impoverished Home Children.

Loyal True Blue Orphanage, Hallowell Ontario 1901

Prince Edward County, Ontario. Search for ancestors in list of orphans in Loyal True Blue Orphanage near Picton, in Hallowell Township.

Nation Builders: Barnardo Children in Canada

A book by Gail H. Corbett.

Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search For A Stolen Identity

A book by Perry Snow.

Organisations Helping Former Child Migrants To Find Family Members - National Archives of Australia

Quarriers Charity

Scotland. Originally Orphan Homes of Scotland located at Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire.