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Barnardo's

In 1870, Dr. Barnardo opened his first home for children in London’s impoverished East End.

British Home Children

A site for listing the names of the individual British Home Children.

British Home Children in Canada

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

British Home Children Mailing List

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.

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’s former Child Migrants with their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters.

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 / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada - Home Children, 1869-1930

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.

Ragged School Museum

The museum resides in three canal-side warehouses in Copperfield Road, East London. These buildings were previously used by Dr Barnardo to house the largest ragged school in London.

The Children's Society

The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada

A book by Kenneth Bagnell.