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British Home Children

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

British Home Children Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)

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.

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

A book by Joy Parr.

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.

Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search For A Stolen Identity

A book by Perry Snow.

Quarriers Charity

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

William Quarrier Home Children Association

An association of Scottish home children and their families.

Young Immigrants to Canada

When the topic of child immigrants to Canada is raised many people first think of Barnardo's. Some may know about Annie Macpherson, Maria Rye, Fegan Homes, Dr. Stephenson and the National Children's Home or even some of the Roman Catholic organizations. This web site represents research into all of the organizations which brought children and young women to Canada between 1833 and 1935.